A Wetted Beak: Engravings from Pauline Knip’s Les Pigeons (1811)

Piled High: 17th-Century Dutch Banquet Scenes

Alfred G. Mayer’s On the Color and Color-Patterns of Moths and Butterflies (1897)

Fantastic Planet: The Microscopy Album of Marinus Pieter Filbri (1887–88)

Anton Seder’s The Animal in Decorative Art (1896)

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

A Very Tall Tale: Photograph of the Cardiff Giant (ca. 1869)

Among the Moss Piglets: The First Image of a Tardigrade (1773)

A Bug’s Life: David and Marian Fairchild’s Book of Monsters (1914)

Thomas Eakins’ Photograph of a Dissected Horse’s Leg (ca. 1885)

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

Tom Seidmann-Freud’s Book of Hare Stories (1924)

Tales of the Catfish God: Earthquakes in Japanese Woodblock Prints (1855)

Unwashed Furry Masses: Wanda Gág’s Millions of Cats (1928)

As Loud as a Mouse: Mickey’s Sonic Debut in Steamboat Willie (1928)

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

Season’s Bleatings: Finnish Photographs of the Nuuttipukki (1928)

Charles H. Bennett’s Shadows (ca. 1856)

“Those Disturbers of my Rest”: The First Treatise on Bedbugs (1730)

The Comic Natural History of the Human Race (1851)

Medieval Illustrations of Bonnacons

Photographs of the Los Angeles Alligator Farm (ca. 1907)

Jean Baptiste Vérany’s Chromolithographs of Cephalopods (1851)

Martin Frobenius Ledermüller’s Microscopic Delights (1759–63)