Elizabeth I’s Manuscript Copy of Pierre Boaistuau’s Histoires Prodigieuses (1559)

Snail Homes, Bog Bodies, and Mechanical Flies: Robert Testard’s Illustrations for Les secretz de l’histoire naturelle (ca. 1485)

Deceit and Disrobing: The Schefer Maqāmāt (BNF Arabe 5847, ca. 1237)

The Cat’s Maew: Thai Treatise on Auspicious Felines (19th Century)

Flowers of Fealty: Wilhelm Dilich’s Commemoration of the Christening of Elisabeth of Hesse (1598)

Off with Their Heads: Illustrations of Blemmyes (ca. 1175–1724)

Master of Claude de France’s Book of Flower Studies (ca. 1510–1515)

Yellow Silence: Miniature from the Silos Apocalypse (ca. 1100)

Antiquities of Mexico (1831–48)

Johannes Hartlieb’s Book of Herbs (1462)

Love Spells and Deadly Shrieks: Illustrations of Mandrakes (ca. 650–1927)

Behold the Nebulous Smear: ‘Abd al-Rahmān al-Sūfī’s Illustrated Book of Fixed Stars (ca. 1430)

Unidentified Floating Object: Edo Images of Utsuro-bune

Medieval Illustrations of Bonnacons

Battles of the Sexes: Duels between Women and Men in 1400s Fechtbücher

Evrard d'Espinque’s Illuminations of De Proprietatibus Rerum (ca. 1480)

Alexander in the Bathysphere

The Holkham Bible Picture Book (ca. 1330)

Snowball Fights in Art (1400–1946)

Clavis Artis by “Zoroaster”

Solid Objects: 16th-Century Geometric and Perspective Drawings

Lewis Carroll’s Illustrations for “Alice’s Adventures Under Ground” (1864)

The Zodiac Man

Der Naturen Bloeme: The Flower of Nature (ca. 1350)