Images from German “Caterpillar Calendar” (1837)

The Whims (1799) and The Follies (1815–23) of Francisco Goya

The “Salad Oil Style” of Jan Toorop

Diagrams from Dr Alesha Sivartha’s Book of Life (1898)

Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio (1880)

Alphonse Bertillon’s Synoptic Table of Physiognomic Traits (ca. 1909)

The Civil War Sketches of Adolph Metzner (1861–64)

On the Disposition of Iron in Variegated Strata (1868)

Émile-Antoine Bayard’s Illustrations for Around the Moon by Jules Verne (1870)

Illustrations from the Lights of Canopus (1847)

The First Shape Book: Little Red Riding Hood (1863)

Hieroglyphic Journal of a Voyage to the Caribbean (1815)

Kusakabe Kimbei’s Photographs of Late 19th-Century Japan

William Sharp’s Chromolithographs of The Great Water Lily (1854)

“Dialogue Between Frederick Ruysch and His Mummies” by Giacomo Leopardi (1827)

The Heart of Man; Either a Temple of God, or a Habitation of Satan; Represented in Ten Emblematical Figures (1851)

The History of Ink: Including its Etymology, Chemistry, and Bibliography (1860)

The Concealed Erotic Paintings of Sommonte (19th Century)

Eighteen Hundred and Eleven (1812)

Geographical Fun: Being Humourous Outlines of Various Countries (1868)

Book of French Textile Samples (1863)

Public and Private Life of Animals (1877)

Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote (1867)

The Burning Stable (1896)