“A Truer and Deeper Knowledge”: Anna Maria van Schurman’s The Learned Maid (1659)

Thomas Eakins’ Photograph of a Dissected Horse’s Leg (ca. 1885)

American Grammar: Diagraming Sentences in the 19th Century

Raffaele Mainella’s Illustrations for Nos Invisibles (1907)

Looking Backward: Images of Rückenfiguren (ca. 1497–1925)

Programming Prayer: The Woven Book of Hours (1886–87)

The Lens of Desire: Eye Miniatures (ca. 1790–1810)

“Chinese Arabesques” by Jean-Baptiste Pillement and Anne Allen (ca. 1790–99)

“On This Desolate Island”: Sodomy Punish’d (1726)

Chromatic Aberrations: The Toll of the Sea (1922)

Love Spells and Deadly Shrieks: Illustrations of Mandrakes (ca. 650–1927)

The Gilded Gallows of Georg Honauer (1597)

The Little Journal of Rejects (1896)

Mayday, Mayday: Capital and Labor (1907)

Photographs of Life in Palestine (ca. 1896–1919)

Maria Catharina Prestel’s Printed Cabinet of Drawings (ca. 1780s)

Annie Besant and Charles Leadbeater’s Occult Chemistry (1908)

Signs and Wonders: Celestial Phenomena in 16th-Century Germany

Distortions and Grimaces: Jean de Bosschère’s Weird Islands (1921)

Edith Wharton’s Italian Villas and their Gardens (1904)

Grotesqueries at Gethsemane: Marcus Gheeraerts’ Passio Verbigenae (ca. 1580)

A Family Tree: Hippolyte Hodeau’s Trench Art (ca. 1917)

Tom Seidmann-Freud’s Book of Hare Stories (1924)

Flemish Proverbs by Jan Wierix (ca. 1568)