“A Beautiful Purplish Hue”: Frank Dudley Beane’s Experience with Ergot and Cannabis Indica (1884)

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

Doing Impressions: Monet’s Early Caricatures (ca. late 1850s)

Sekka Zusetsu: A Book of Snowflakes (1832)

Peter Kropotkin’s Memoirs of a Revolutionist (1899)

Luke Howard’s Essay on the Modification of Clouds (1865)

Henri Rivière’s Thirty-Six Views of the Eiffel Tower (1888–1902)

Perverse, Grotesque, Sensuous, Inimitable: A Selection of Works by Aubrey Beardsley

Animal Costumes from the 1862 Fairytale Ball of the Jung-München Artist’s Association

Paramaribo and the Plantation: Gerrit Schouten’s Dioramas of Suriname (1810–30)

The Nature of the Beast: Charles le Brun’s Human-Animal Hybrids (1806)

Vertiginous Accounts: Travels in the Air (1871 edition)

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

A Collection of Old English Customs, and Curious Bequests and Charities (1842)

Ivan Aivazovsky’s Miniature Seascapes (ca. 1887)

The Cat’s Maew: Thai Treatise on Auspicious Felines (19th Century)

The “Private” Photographs of Bolette Berg and Marie Høeg (ca. 1895–1903)

“The Great Enigma of Our Times”: Henry George’s Poverty and Progress (1881 edition)

Mudpots and Fumaroles: Lithographs of Yellowstone’s Thermal Springs (1883)

Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained by Henry Lee (1883)

Sheet Mewsic: Moritz von Schwind’s Katzensymphonie (1868)

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

Uncommon Sense: Edward B. Foote’s Plain Home Talk (1896 edition)

The Mermaid “at Home!” (1809)