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)

Pulex irritans: The Attack of the Monster (1885)

“A Beautiful Purplish Hue”: Frank Dudley Beane’s Experience with Ergot and Cannabis Indica (1884)

Broken Ground: The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)

Elizabeth I’s Manuscript Copy of Pierre Boaistuau’s Histoires Prodigieuses (1559)

“Wretches, Speak Evil of Me”: Goethe and Schiller’s Xenions (1896 edition)

Doing Impressions: Monet’s Early Caricatures (ca. late 1850s)

Calicornication: Postcards of Giant Produce (1909)

Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland (1915)

Wayang Kulit: Raden Soelardi’s Illustrations of Javanese Puppets (1919)

Unbridled Passions: The Eight Horses of King Mu, Son of Heaven (ca. 1300)

Pigeons Transmogrified: Hannah Glasse’s Art of Cookery (1751 edition)

Snail Homes, Bog Bodies, and Mechanical Flies: Robert Testard’s Illustrations for Les secretz de l’histoire naturelle (ca. 1485)

Sekka Zusetsu: A Book of Snowflakes (1832)

Sara Weiss’ Journeys to the Planet Mars (1903)