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Optimist und Pessimist am Krankenbett : zu den Fabeln von Jean de La Fontaine / Gero Schäfer. Mit einem Essay "Aesop, der Arzt und der Tod" von M. Putscher.

At a Great Exhibition a shopkeeper sells enemas concealed in hollow volumes of classic literature for purposes of discretion. Lithograph by C. Vernier, 1844.

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Optimist und Pessimist am Krankenbett : zu den Fabeln von Jean de La Fontaine / Gero Schäfer. Mit einem Essay "Aesop, der Arzt und der Tod" von M. Putscher.

At a Great Exhibition a shopkeeper sells enemas concealed in hollow volumes of classic literature for purposes of discretion. Lithograph by C. Vernier, 1844.