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Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone turned 20 years old on June 26th, 2017, and perhaps the most appropriate place to celebrate the first score of the Harry Potter franchise is in a library.

"How to Pass Your O.W.L.s at Hogwarts: A Prep Course” is a curated collection of 40 images within The New York Academy of Medicine’s 33,000 rare book collection. (The organization’s main book catalog includes nearly 550,000 books.) The collection is available to view online, showcasing things like dragons from Ambroise Paré’s 1607 Les oeuvres d'Ambroise Paré: Sixieme Edition and the 1707 hieroglyphics attributed to Nicholas Flamel in the alchemical text, Medicina Practica, or the Practical Physician.

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