The “Salad Oil Style” of Jan Toorop

Diagrams from Dr Alesha Sivartha’s Book of Life (1898)

Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio (1880)

Autumn: Saviour, Breathe an Evening Blessing (1912)

The Model Book of Calligraphy (1561–1596)

Alphonse Bertillon’s Synoptic Table of Physiognomic Traits (ca. 1909)

The Civil War Sketches of Adolph Metzner (1861–64)

On the Disposition of Iron in Variegated Strata (1868)

Émile-Antoine Bayard’s Illustrations for Around the Moon by Jules Verne (1870)

Illustrations from the Lights of Canopus (1847)

Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African (1784)

The First Shape Book: Little Red Riding Hood (1863)

Park Conscious (1938)

Woodrow Wilson On Democratic Principles (1912)

Hieroglyphic Journal of a Voyage to the Caribbean (1815)

The Victrola Book of the Opera (1913)

Chladni Figures (1787)

Kusakabe Kimbei’s Photographs of Late 19th-Century Japan

William Sharp’s Chromolithographs of The Great Water Lily (1854)

“Dialogue Between Frederick Ruysch and His Mummies” by Giacomo Leopardi (1827)

Destination Earth (1956)

The Heart of Man; Either a Temple of God, or a Habitation of Satan; Represented in Ten Emblematical Figures (1851)

The History of Ink: Including its Etymology, Chemistry, and Bibliography (1860)

Music in the Margins: The Funeral of Reynard the Fox (13th century)