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

Peruvianizing Peru: Covers from Amauta Magazine (1926–30)

Diagrams for Travel from the Qanoon-e-Islam (1832)

Diagrams from Willem ten Rhijne’s De Acupunctura (1683)

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

Wayang Kulit: Raden Soelardi’s Illustrations of Javanese Puppets (1919)

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)

Paramaribo and the Plantation: Gerrit Schouten’s Dioramas of Suriname (1810–30)

Cannibal Modernity: Oswald de Andrade’s Manifesto Antropófago (1928)

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

Reality Iced: Robert J. Flaherty’s Nanook of the North (1922)

Etching of a Sámi Drum from the Dutch Edition of Johannes Schefferus’ Lapponia (1682)

Theodor de Bry’s Engravings for Thomas Harriot’s Briefe and True Report (1590)

Chromatic Aberrations: The Toll of the Sea (1922)

Unidentified Floating Object: Edo Images of Utsuro-bune

“When London is in Ruins”: Gustave Doré’s The New Zealander (1872)

John Uri Lloyd’s Etidorhpa (1895)

Kaspar Hauser’s Art (1828–1833)

Hans Prinzhorn’s Artistry of the Mentally Ill (1922)

The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins, a Cornish Man (1750)

Texts in Mathias Enard’s Compass

Edward Curtis’ Photographs of Kwakwaka’wakw Ceremonial Dress and Masks (ca. 1914)

Comparative Physiognomy: or, Resemblances Between Men and Animals (1852)