Texts in Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn

Jelly Roll Morton (1927)

Magic: Stage Illusions and Scientific Diversions (1897)

The Accidents of Youth (1819)

Radical Fashion from the Schembart Carnival (1590)

The Hasheesh Eater (1857)

Hands (1944)

Extracts from the Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks (1769)

The History of Four-Footed Beasts and Serpents (1658)

James Mooney’s Ghost Dance Recordings (1894)

The World Turned Upside Down (18th century)

A Pack of Cavalier Playing Cards (1886)

Sketches by Yoshitoshi (1882)

Phrenology Diagrams from Vaught’s Practical Character Reader (1902)

Vaught’s Practical Character Reader (1902)

Medical Imagery of the 15th Century

On the Writing of the Insane (1870)

“Luscious Clusters of the Vine”: A Collection of 17-Century Garden Writing (1908)

Georges Méliès’ Temptation of St. Anthony (1898)

Double Exposures

Various Forms of Architecture (1636)

Endless Amusement (1820)

Slovak Folk Songs (1928/30)

The Heart in Art