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

Photographs of the Samaritan Passover on Mount Gerizim (1917)

Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained by Henry Lee (1883)

Sheet Mewsic: Moritz von Schwind’s Katzensymphonie (1868)

“The Form of a Demon and the Heart of a Person”: Kitagawa Utamaro’s Prints of Yamauba and Kintarō (ca. 1800)

Uncommon Sense: Edward B. Foote’s Plain Home Talk (1896 edition)

Bedded Bugs and Stung Beetles: The Cameraman’s Revenge (1912)

Through a Glass Lushly: Michalina Janoszanka’s Reverse Paintings (ca. 1920s)

The Mermaid “at Home!” (1809)

Ostrich Egg-Shell Cups of Mesopotamia and the Ostrich in Ancient and Modern Times (1926)

Master of Claude de France’s Book of Flower Studies (ca. 1510–1515)

José Guadalupe Posada’s Engravings of Unusual Births (ca. 1880–1910)

The Drift of Things: David Goodman Croly’s Glimpses of the Future (1888)

Gustatory Wisdom: Bruegel the Elder’s Twelve Proverbs (1558)

What Is It Like to Be a Bass? Fish-Eye View Photography (1919–22)