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)

Autobiography of a “Jeep” (1943)

Flights of Fancy: The Nine Birds of Jacques de Fornazeris (1594)

A Prophet of the Weather: Lantern Slides by Clement Lindley Wragge (ca. 1900–22)

Peter Kropotkin’s Memoirs of a Revolutionist (1899)

Nature Morte: Chaïm Soutine’s Still Lifes (ca. 1920s)

Deceit and Disrobing: The Schefer Maqāmāt (BNF Arabe 5847, ca. 1237)

Luke Howard’s Essay on the Modification of Clouds (1865)

“Quaint Dessert Dishes” in American Homes and Gardens (1911)

Henri Rivière’s Thirty-Six Views of the Eiffel Tower (1888–1902)

Too Computerised? Too Cold?: 1999 A.D. (1967)

Perverse, Grotesque, Sensuous, Inimitable: A Selection of Works by Aubrey Beardsley

Animal Costumes from the 1862 Fairytale Ball of the Jung-München Artist’s Association

“That’s Why We Become Witches”: Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Lolly Willowes (1926)

A Treatise on the All-Healing Qualities of Earth Bathing (1790)

Paramaribo and the Plantation: Gerrit Schouten’s Dioramas of Suriname (1810–30)

The Nature of the Beast: Charles le Brun’s Human-Animal Hybrids (1806)

Vertiginous Accounts: Travels in the Air (1871 edition)

Birth of the Pearl (1901)