Paul Carus’ The History of the Devil and the Idea of Evil (1899)

The Alchemical Transformations of the Mutus Liber (1677)

“There is Nothing but Immortality!”: Walt Whitman and The Book of Heavenly Death (1905)

Anatomy Unzipped: John of Arderne’s Sweden Scroll (ca. 1425–35)

In Company Style: Illustrations from James Skinner’s Kitāb-i tashrīḥ al-aqvām (1825)

It’s “A Cat-astrophe”! (1919)

Metamorphosis: Transformations in the Early Modern Flap Book (early 19th century)

The Ties that Bind: Central Asian Ikat (ca. 19th century)

Photographs of Atlantic City Sand Sculpture (ca. 1880–1920)

“The Persian Mâr-Nâmeh or, The Book for Taking Omens from Snakes” (1892)

Archie G. Norcross’ Maine Forest Fire Maps (1918–22)

Peruvianizing Peru: Covers from Amauta Magazine (1926–30)

Choice Notes on History from Notes and Queries (1858)

Diagrams for Travel from the Qanoon-e-Islam (1832)

The Art of Kite Flying (1430–1929)

Venetian Bridge Brawls in 17th and 18th Century Art

Genevieve Stebbins’ Delsarte System of Dramatic Expression (1886)

Covers from Cerîde-i Adliye, a Turkish Law Journal (1924–26)

Harold A. Taylor’s Autochromes of California Flowers (early 20th century)

The Prophecies of the Brahan Seer (1877)

“Plaything of the Gods”: Photographs of Pushball (early 1900s)

Diagrams from Willem ten Rhijne’s De Acupunctura (1683)

Longitude by Way of Wounded Hounds: Kenelm Digby’s Sympathetick Powder (1669 edition)

Pyramid of the Capitalist System (1911)