Allegorical Maps of Love, Courtship, and Matrimony

1970: A Vision of the Coming Age (1870)

British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions (1880)

Fore-Edge Book Paintings from the Boston Public Library

The Bakemono Zukushi “Monster” Scroll (18th–19th century)

Ernst Haeckel’s Jellyfish

Mary Wollstonecraft’s Adventures in Scandinavia

The Sky: A Film Lesson in “Nature Study” (1928)

E. T. A. Hoffmann’s Strange Stories

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