Edouard Joseph d’Alton’s Illustrations of Animal Skeletons (1821–1838)

John Gould’s Mammals of Australia (1845–63)

D. A. Rovinskii’s Collection of Russian Lubki (18th–19th Century)

Augustus Jansson’s Queen City Ink Adverts (1903–1907)

Buffon and de Sève’s Quadrupeds (1754)

The Unicorn Tapestries (1495–1505)

The Beast of Gévaudan (1764–1767)

Agnes Catlow’s Drops of Water (1851)

Jan van Kessel’s Signature of Caterpillars and Snakes (1657)

Polychrome Woodblocks of Itō Jakuchū Birds

Anecdotes of Animals (1905)

Kumataro Ito’s Illustrations of Nudibranchs from the USS Albatross’ Philippine Expedition (ca. 1908)

Early Experiments with X-Rays (1896)

The Dinosaur and the Missing Link: A Prehistoric Tragedy (1917)

Images from William Saville-Kent’s The Great Barrier Reef of Australia (1893)

Flatfish Camouflage Experiments (1911)

Ernst Haeckel’s Jellyfish

Drawings of Tetradons and Diodons (ca. 1838–42)

Images from German “Caterpillar Calendar” (1837)

Kittens and Cats: A First Reader (1911) — Cats and Captions before the Internet Age

The Whims (1799) and The Follies (1815–23) of Francisco Goya

The Model Book of Calligraphy (1561–1596)

Illustrations from the Lights of Canopus (1847)

Music in the Margins: The Funeral of Reynard the Fox (13th century)