John Milton’s Frontispiece Prank

The Celestial Atlas of Andreas Cellarius (1660)

Allegorical Maps of Love, Courtship, and Matrimony

Fore-Edge Book Paintings from the Boston Public Library

Maps Showing California as an Island

The Egg Dance: From Peasant Village to Political Caricature

The Drolatic Dreams of Pantagruel (1565)

First English Edition of Michel de Montaigne’s Essays (1603)

Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote (1867)

The Spinning Sow (1673)

Images from Johann Zahn’s Oculus Artificialis (1685)

A Selection from The MET’s Public Domain Collection, Now Free from All Restrictions

The City of Truth, or, Ethics (1609)

Chirologia, or The Natural Language of the Hand (1644)

Rainbows in Art

The Human Alphabet

Potts’s Discovery of Witches in the County of Lancaster (1845)

The Surreal Art of Alchemical Diagrams

The Singerie: Monkeys acting as Humans in Art

Marvels of Things Created and Miraculous Aspects of Things Existing

The Steps of Life

The Explosion of the Spanish Flagship during the Battle of Gibraltar (ca. 1621)

Le Centre de l’Amour (ca. 1687)

NYPL Release 187k Public Domain Images in Hi-Res