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

A Prophet of the Weather: Lantern Slides by Clement Lindley Wragge (ca. 1900–22)

Luke Howard’s Essay on the Modification of Clouds (1865)

Perspiration, Bilocation, and Plagiarisation: “The Heat Wave” (1929)

Mudpots and Fumaroles: Lithographs of Yellowstone’s Thermal Springs (1883)

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

The Mermaid “at Home!” (1809)

Master of Claude de France’s Book of Flower Studies (ca. 1510–1515)

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

The American Colony of Jerusalem’s “Wild Flowers of Palestine” (ca. 1900–20)

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

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

A Family Tree: Hippolyte Hodeau’s Trench Art (ca. 1917)

Maria Sibylla Merian’s Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium (1705)

Modernity in the Rainforest: Man and his Desire (1917)

A Careful Selection of Whisk Ferns (1837)

A Distinct Phenomenon in Itself: C. V. Raman’s Discovery of Why the Sea is Blue (1921)

Jean Baptiste Vérany’s Chromolithographs of Cephalopods (1851)

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

Levi Walter Yaggy’s Geographical Maps and Charts (1887/93)

Many-Colored Misdirection: Concealing-Coloration in the Animal Kingdom (1909)

Frost Flowers on the Windows (1899)

Art Brut: The Scare-Fox (1910)

A Bestiary of Loss