Hokusai’s Ghost Stories (ca. 1830)

Nineteenth-Century Textspeak

The Astrologer of the Nineteenth Century (1825)

Early Experiments with X-Rays (1896)

Pepys’s Ghost (1899)

Images from William Saville-Kent’s The Great Barrier Reef of Australia (1893)

The Tragedy of the Seas (1841)

Bon-Mots of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century (1897)

Albert Racinet’s L’Ornement Polychrome (1869–73)

Scrapbook of Hand-Coloured Juvenile Woodcut Emblems

Allegorical Maps of Love, Courtship, and Matrimony

1970: A Vision of the Coming Age (1870)

British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions (1880)

Fore-Edge Book Paintings from the Boston Public Library

The Bakemono Zukushi “Monster” Scroll (18th–19th century)

Ernst Haeckel’s Jellyfish

E. T. A. Hoffmann’s Strange Stories

The Philosophy of Beards (1854)

First recording of Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (1909)

Utagawa Hiroshige: Last Great Master of Ukiyo-e

Letters to Dead Authors (1886)

The Book of Exposition: A Collection of 15th-Century Erotica from the Middle East (1900)

The Egg Dance: From Peasant Village to Political Caricature

Napoleon’s “Englich” Lessons