Extracts from the Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks (1769)

The History of Four-Footed Beasts and Serpents (1658)

A Pack of Cavalier Playing Cards (1886)

Vaught’s Practical Character Reader (1902)

On the Writing of the Insane (1870)

“Luscious Clusters of the Vine”: A Collection of 17-Century Garden Writing (1908)

Endless Amusement (1820)

Emblems Ancient and Modern (1699)

A Dictionary of Victorian Slang (1909)

The Six Voyages of John Baptista Tavernier (1678)

A Christmas Sermon by Robert Louis Stevenson (1900)

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus (1897)

Sir Isaac Newton’s Daniel and the Apocalypse (1733)

Diary Days from Christmas Past

Prison diary of Michael Dougherty (1908)

Snowflakes: A Chapter From the Book of Nature (1863)

Popular Scientific Recreations (1883 edition)

Robert Louis Stevenson’s Baby Book (1922)

A Description of the Brain of Mr. Charles Babbage (1909)

Manuscript Handbook of Firework Design (1785)

Dennison’s Bogie Book for Halloween (1920)

The Proper Art of Writing (1655)

The Art of Invigorating and Prolonging Life (1822 edition)

I Dub Thee “Fly-Fornication”: Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature (1880)