The Art of Kite Flying (1430–1929)

The Mowing-Devil (1678), or, the Earliest Known Depiction of a Crop Circle

The Language of Form: Lothar Schreyer’s Kreuzigung (1920)

Tangled Dürer: The Six Knots (ca. before 1521)

“Light from the Darkness”: Paul Nash’s Genesis (1924)

Looking Backward: Images of Rückenfiguren (ca. 1497–1925)

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

Signs and Wonders: Celestial Phenomena in 16th-Century Germany

The World's First Costume Book: François Desprez's Collection of Various Clothing Styles (1562)

The Geometric Landscapes of Lorenz Stoer (1567)

The Triumphal Arch of Emperor Maximilian I (1515)

Mnemonic Alphabet of Jacobus Publicius (1482)

Hans Holbein’s Dance of Death (1523–5)

The Drolatic Dreams of Pantagruel (1565)

A Collection of Fashionable English Words (1887)

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

The City of Truth, or, Ethics (1609)

Chirologia, or The Natural Language of the Hand (1644)

Kobayashi Kiyochika’s Cartoons of the Russo-Japanese War (1904–5)

The Steps of Life

Celestial Phenomenon Over Nuremberg, April 14th, 1561

Georg Bartisch’s Ophthalmodouleia (1583)

Flowers of the Sky

The Art of Swimming (1587)