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

Choice Notes on History from Notes and Queries (1858)

Genevieve Stebbins’ Delsarte System of Dramatic Expression (1886)

The Prophecies of the Brahan Seer (1877)

Longitude by Way of Wounded Hounds: Kenelm Digby’s Sympathetick Powder (1669 edition)

“A Beautiful Purplish Hue”: Frank Dudley Beane’s Experience with Ergot and Cannabis Indica (1884)

“Wretches, Speak Evil of Me”: Goethe and Schiller’s Xenions (1896 edition)

Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland (1915)

Pigeons Transmogrified: Hannah Glasse’s Art of Cookery (1751 edition)

Sara Weiss’ Journeys to the Planet Mars (1903)

Peter Kropotkin’s Memoirs of a Revolutionist (1899)

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

“That’s Why We Become Witches”: Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Lolly Willowes (1926)

A Treatise on the All-Healing Qualities of Earth Bathing (1790)

Vertiginous Accounts: Travels in the Air (1871 edition)

A Collection of Old English Customs, and Curious Bequests and Charities (1842)

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

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

Strings Attached: Helen Haiman Joseph’s A Book of Marionettes (1920)

Drawing on Tradition: Elena Izcue’s Peruvian Art in the School (1926)

Charles Davy’s Conjectural Observations on the Origin and Progress of Alphabetic Writing (1772)

“The Great Enigma of Our Times”: Henry George’s Poverty and Progress (1881 edition)

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

Nikolai Agnivtsev’s Little Screw (1925)