Every time I read BibliOdyssey, I think, this is what I want on my walls. The author, known as peacay, finds beautiful and strange images from antique books and documents, collects them by theme, and tells the story of their significance. He finds many of his images in online library sites and archives, and does a lot of fighting with web interfaces gone bad--stitching together screenshots and removing watermarks--to bring us pristine high res versions which he posts on Flickr.

Some favorite recent posts: Panorama Handbills (they should definitely bring back the panorama as an attraction), Clippings (featuring an awesome 1751 map of Sri Lanka with plans of forts around the edge), and River Deep Mountain High, with maps that compare the tallest mountains with the longest rivers. To quote someone on Flickr, is it possible to Fave every picture in a set at once?

I recently found a similar blog called Old Book Art, which offers posters and every other conceivable type of merchandise on Zazzle. One can of course do the same for the BibliOdyssey images by uploading them. The challenge, a common one these days, is whittling down the overwhelming selection.