The Art of Kite Flying (1430–1929)

Venetian Bridge Brawls in 17th and 18th Century Art

“Wretches, Speak Evil of Me”: Goethe and Schiller’s Xenions (1896 edition)

Pigeons Transmogrified: Hannah Glasse’s Art of Cookery (1751 edition)

A Treatise on the All-Healing Qualities of Earth Bathing (1790)

The Shadow of Desire: Painting the Origins of Art (ca. 1625–1850)

Off with Their Heads: Illustrations of Blemmyes (ca. 1175–1724)

Charles Davy’s Conjectural Observations on the Origin and Progress of Alphabetic Writing (1772)

Gilded Fish: Illustrations from Histoire naturelle des dorades de la Chine (1780)

“The Form of a Demon and the Heart of a Person”: Kitagawa Utamaro’s Prints of Yamauba and Kintarō (ca. 1800)

Peckish Alphabetics: The Tragical Death of a Apple-Pye (ca. 1793–1796)

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

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

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)

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

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

Maria Sibylla Merian’s Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium (1705)

The Age of Impoliteness: Galateo: or, A Treatise on Politeness and Delicacy of Manners (1774 edition)

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

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

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