Birth of the Pearl (1901)

The Shadow of Desire: Painting the Origins of Art (ca. 1625–1850)

A Collection of Old English Customs, and Curious Bequests and Charities (1842)

Ivan Aivazovsky’s Miniature Seascapes (ca. 1887)

The Cat’s Maew: Thai Treatise on Auspicious Felines (19th Century)

Cannibal Modernity: Oswald de Andrade’s Manifesto Antropófago (1928)

Flowers of Fealty: Wilhelm Dilich’s Commemoration of the Christening of Elisabeth of Hesse (1598)

Through the Magnifying Glass: The Cheese Mites (1903)

The Mowing-Devil (1678), or, the Earliest Known Depiction of a Crop Circle

Perspiration, Bilocation, and Plagiarisation: “The Heat Wave” (1929)

The “Private” Photographs of Bolette Berg and Marie Høeg (ca. 1895–1903)

The Language of Form: Lothar Schreyer’s Kreuzigung (1920)

Strings Attached: Helen Haiman Joseph’s A Book of Marionettes (1920)

Off with Their Heads: Illustrations of Blemmyes (ca. 1175–1724)

Drawing on Tradition: Elena Izcue’s Peruvian Art in the School (1926)

Charles Davy’s Conjectural Observations on the Origin and Progress of Alphabetic Writing (1772)

Bernard Sleigh’s Anciente Mappe of Fairyland (ca. 1920 edition)

“The Great Enigma of Our Times”: Henry George’s Poverty and Progress (1881 edition)

Gilded Fish: Illustrations from Histoire naturelle des dorades de la Chine (1780)

Charles Butler’s The Feminine Monarchie, or the History of Bees (1634 edition)

Mudpots and Fumaroles: Lithographs of Yellowstone’s Thermal Springs (1883)

Tangled Dürer: The Six Knots (ca. before 1521)

Nikolai Agnivtsev’s Little Screw (1925)

Oskar Kokoschka, Hermine Moos, and the Alma Mahler Doll