“The Persian Mâr-Nâmeh or, The Book for Taking Omens from Snakes” (1892)

Genevieve Stebbins’ Delsarte System of Dramatic Expression (1886)

Longitude by Way of Wounded Hounds: Kenelm Digby’s Sympathetick Powder (1669 edition)

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

Cannibal Modernity: Oswald de Andrade’s Manifesto Antropófago (1928)

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

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

Charles Butler’s The Feminine Monarchie, or the History of Bees (1634 edition)

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

The Drift of Things: David Goodman Croly’s Glimpses of the Future (1888)

Perpetual Movement: Francis Picabia’s 391 Review (1917–1924)

True Crime: Allan Pinkerton’s Thirty Years a Detective (1884)

Aphrodisiacs and Anti-Aphrodisiacs (1869)

Sabine Baring-Gould’s Book of Were-Wolves (1865)

queries

“A Truer and Deeper Knowledge”: Anna Maria van Schurman’s The Learned Maid (1659)

Mayday, Mayday: Capital and Labor (1907)

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

Humanity 101: The Syllabus of Frankenstein's Monster

In the Mind of Marie: A Haunting Encounter in the Gardens of Versailles (1913)

“Though Silent, I Speak”: A Book of Sundial Mottoes (1903)

Blights of the Bookish: An Essay on Diseases Incidental to Literary and Sedentary Persons (1768)

Many-Colored Misdirection: Concealing-Coloration in the Animal Kingdom (1909)

Frost Flowers on the Windows (1899)