Maps Showing California as an Island

Mnemonic Alphabet of Jacobus Publicius (1482)

The Philosophy of Beards (1854)

First recording of Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (1909)

Utagawa Hiroshige: Last Great Master of Ukiyo-e

Letters to Dead Authors (1886)

Hans Holbein’s Dance of Death (1523–5)

Häxan: Witchcraft Through The Ages (1922)

The Book of Exposition: A Collection of 15th-Century Erotica from the Middle East (1900)

Swedish House-Gymnastics (1913)

The Egg Dance: From Peasant Village to Political Caricature

The Diverting History of John Gilpin: Shewing how he Went Further than he Intended, and Came Safe Home Again (1782)

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Tanglewood Tales, illustrated by Virginia Frances Sterrett (1921)

The Drolatic Dreams of Pantagruel (1565)

Napoleon’s “Englich” Lessons

Drawings of Tetradons and Diodons (ca. 1838–42)

Adeline Harris Sears’ Autographs Quilt (1856–ca.1863)

First English Edition of Michel de Montaigne’s Essays (1603)

Autographs for Freedom (1853)

Steam-Powered Tooth Extraction on an Envelope (1894)

Cryptography: or the History, Principles, and Practice of Cipher-Writing (1898)

Russian Portraits (1921)

Details from Gustav Klimt’s The Kiss (1908)

The Dances of the Ages (1913)