Joseph Ducreux’s Self-Portraits (ca. 1790)

Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum (1652)

Ancient Courses: Harold Fisk’s Meander Maps of the Mississippi River (1944)

“A Slight Freshness on the Neck”: Prints Depicting the Execution of Louis XVI (ca. 1793)

First Edition Pamphlet of Frederick Douglass’ “What to the Slave Is the 4th of July?” (1852)

The Four Elements and Temperaments from an Album of Prints after Maerten de Vos (ca. 1583)

William Wood’s The History and Antiquities of Eyam (1848)

Early Photographs of Juneteenth Celebrations

Kawanable Kyōsai’s Night Parade of One Hundred Demons (1890)

Select Specimens of the Theatre of the Hindus (1827)

The Comet Book (1587)

Old English Customs Extant at the Present Time (1896)

Erbario: a 15th-century Herbal from Northern Italy

Henrique Alvim Corrêa’s Illustrations for The War of the Worlds (1906)

The Expressions of Emotion in the Pigeons (1909–11)

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s Bed Series: An Intimate Look Behind the Scenes at a Paris Brothel (1890s)

Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron (ca. 1353)

Studies on Twilight Phenomena, after Krakatoa (1888)

London's Dreadful Visitation: A Year of Weekly Death Statistics during the Great Plague (1665)

Richard Deakin’s Flora of the Colosseum of Rome (1855)

Plague Doctor Costumes

Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art (1853)

Coughs, Sneezes, and Jet-Propelled Germs: Two Public Service Films by Richard Massingham (1945)

Edouard Joseph d’Alton’s Illustrations of Animal Skeletons (1821–1838)