Trimalchio in Newburyport: Timothy Dexter’s A Pickle for the Knowing Ones (1848)

The Discarnates: Thomas Carlyle in the Spirit-World (1920)

Judith Sargent Murray’s On the Equality of the Sexes (1790)

William James on the Stream of Consciousness (1890)

Reciting Pictures: Buddhist Texts for the Illiterate

Imaging Inscape: The Human Soul (1913)

Aspirated Aspirations: Alfred Leach’s The Letter H (1880)

Seeking Enlightenment: Denis Diderot’s Letter on the Blind (1749)

On Sprezzatura: Baldassare Castiglione’s The Book of the Courtier (1903 edition)

The Universe as Pictured in Milton’s Paradise Lost (1915)

Thomas Wright’s An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe (1750)

Temperance Stories and Sketches (1879)

Charles Babbage’s Observations on Street Nuisances (1864)

Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum (1652)

First Edition Pamphlet of Frederick Douglass’ “What to the Slave Is the 4th of July?” (1852)

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

George Perkins Marsh’s Man and Nature (1864)

The Fourth Dimension and the Bible (1922)

The Sexual Life of our Time in its Relations to Modern Civilization ([1906] 1909)

The Philosophy of Beards (1854)

First English Edition of Michel de Montaigne’s Essays (1603)

Autographs for Freedom (1853)

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

Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote (1867)