True Crime: Allan Pinkerton’s Thirty Years a Detective (1884)

Fantastic Planet: The Microscopy Album of Marinus Pieter Filbri (1887–88)

Diagramming Dante: Michelangelo Caetani’s Maps of the Divina Commedia (1855/1872)

Karel Čapek’s Letters from England (1925)

Christoph Jamnitzer’s Neuw Grotteßken Buch (1610)

Aphrodisiacs and Anti-Aphrodisiacs (1869)

“Light from the Darkness”: Paul Nash’s Genesis (1924)

Anton Seder’s The Animal in Decorative Art (1896)

Sabine Baring-Gould’s Book of Were-Wolves (1865)

Etching of a Sámi Drum from the Dutch Edition of Johannes Schefferus’ Lapponia (1682)

Vanity of Vanities: Fool’s Cap Map of the World (ca. 1585)

Paul Éluard and Max Ernst’s Les Malheurs des immortels (1922)

Yellow Silence: Miniature from the Silos Apocalypse (ca. 1100)

“Freedom! Equality!! Justice!!!”: Victoria Woodhull’s Impending Revolution (1872)

A Very Tall Tale: Photograph of the Cardiff Giant (ca. 1869)

Theodor de Bry’s Engravings for Thomas Harriot’s Briefe and True Report (1590)

Edwin D. Babbitt’s Principles of Light and Color (1878)

Among the Moss Piglets: The First Image of a Tardigrade (1773)

queries

Antiquities of Mexico (1831–48)

The American Colony of Jerusalem’s “Wild Flowers of Palestine” (ca. 1900–20)

The Plague of Lust: Being a History of Venereal Disease in Classical Antiquity (1901 edition)

Lonely Together: Paul Fejos’ Lonesome (1928)

Johannes Hartlieb’s Book of Herbs (1462)