Ikkyū in Hell: Skeletons (1692)

A Melting Cauldron: The Book of Hallowe’en (1919)

Your Flannelette Cure: Fire Tests with Textiles (1910)

Aftershock of the New: Woodblock Prints of Post-Disaster Tokyo (1928–32)

Pantographia: A Specimen Book of All the Alphabets Known on Earth (1799)

Käthe Kollwitz’s Peasants’ War Series (ca. 1901–1908)

Charles H. Bennett’s Shadows (ca. 1856)

A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words (1860)

Behold the Nebulous Smear: ‘Abd al-Rahmān al-Sūfī’s Illustrated Book of Fixed Stars (ca. 1430)

A Careful Selection of Whisk Ferns (1837)

George Washington Williams’ History of the Negro Race in America (1882–83)

The Works of Mars (1671)

The “Madame B Album” (ca. 1870s)

A Distinct Phenomenon in Itself: C. V. Raman’s Discovery of Why the Sea is Blue (1921)

Hokusai’s Illustrated Warrior Vanguard of Japan and China (1836)

The Department of Preparation: Thomas Smillie’s Photographic Survey of the Smithsonian (1890–1913)

“Those Disturbers of my Rest”: The First Treatise on Bedbugs (1730)

Specimens of Fancy Turning (1869)

The Comic Natural History of the Human Race (1851)

My Body is a Temple Four-Story House: Analogical Diagram from Tobias Cohen’s Ma’aseh Tuviyah (1708)

Unidentified Floating Object: Edo Images of Utsuro-bune

In the Mind of Marie: A Haunting Encounter in the Gardens of Versailles (1913)

Denishawn Dance Film (ca. 1916)

Medieval Illustrations of Bonnacons