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

Pulex irritans: The Attack of the Monster (1885)

Unbridled Passions: The Eight Horses of King Mu, Son of Heaven (ca. 1300)

Flights of Fancy: The Nine Birds of Jacques de Fornazeris (1594)

Nature Morte: Chaïm Soutine’s Still Lifes (ca. 1920s)

“Quaint Dessert Dishes” in American Homes and Gardens (1911)

Animal Costumes from the 1862 Fairytale Ball of the Jung-München Artist’s Association

The Nature of the Beast: Charles le Brun’s Human-Animal Hybrids (1806)

Birth of the Pearl (1901)

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

Through the Magnifying Glass: The Cheese Mites (1903)

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

Bernard Sleigh’s Anciente Mappe of Fairyland (ca. 1920 edition)

Gilded Fish: Illustrations from Histoire naturelle des dorades de la Chine (1780)

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

Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained by Henry Lee (1883)

Sheet Mewsic: Moritz von Schwind’s Katzensymphonie (1868)

Bedded Bugs and Stung Beetles: The Cameraman’s Revenge (1912)

Through a Glass Lushly: Michalina Janoszanka’s Reverse Paintings (ca. 1920s)

The Mermaid “at Home!” (1809)

Ostrich Egg-Shell Cups of Mesopotamia and the Ostrich in Ancient and Modern Times (1926)

José Guadalupe Posada’s Engravings of Unusual Births (ca. 1880–1910)

What Is It Like to Be a Bass? Fish-Eye View Photography (1919–22)

George Baxter’s Print of Crystal Palace Dinosaurs (ca. 1854)