Japanese Firemen’s Coats (19th century)

Frances Power Cobbe’s “The Peak in Darien: The Riddle of Death” (1882)

Sarah Goodridge’s Beauty Revealed (1828)

Nooks and Corners of Old New York (1899)

John Gould’s Mammals of Australia (1845–63)

George Perkins Marsh’s Man and Nature (1864)

W. W. Denslow’s Illustrations for the Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)

Adalbert Stifter’s Rock Crystal (1846)

Urania’s Mirror; or, a View of the Heavens (circa 1825)

“Firelight Flickering on the Ceiling of the World”: The Aurora Borealis in Art

D. A. Rovinskii’s Collection of Russian Lubki (18th–19th Century)

Dorothy Wordsworth’s Journal of a Few Months’ Residence in Portugal (1847)

Various Apocalyptic Scenes from the Prophetic Messenger (ca. 1827–61)

First Paper to Link CO2 and Global Warming, by Eunice Foote (1856)

The Narrative of Henry Box Brown (1849)

Chester Harding’s My Egotistigraphy (1866)

John O. Westwood’s Facsimiles of Anglo-Saxon and Irish Manuscripts (1868)

Octave Uzanne’s “The End of Books” (1894)

The History of Burke and Hare and of the Resurrectionist Times (1884)

Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Gold-Bug” (1843)

Edward Lear’s Nonsense Botany (1871–77)

Optics Illustrations from the Physics Textbooks of Amédée Guillemin (1868/1882)

Fabre’s Book of Insects (1921)

The Language of Flowers: An Alphabet of Floral Emblems (1857)