Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s Bed Series: An Intimate Look Behind the Scenes at a Paris Brothel (1890s)

Studies on Twilight Phenomena, after Krakatoa (1888)

Plague Doctor Costumes

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

Japanese Firemen’s Coats (19th century)

Sarah Goodridge’s Beauty Revealed (1828)

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

François de Nomé’s Imaginary Ruins

W. W. Denslow’s Illustrations for the Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)

Urania’s Mirror; or, a View of the Heavens (circa 1825)

“Firelight Flickering on the Ceiling of the World”: The Aurora Borealis in Art

Yggdrasil: The Sacred Ash Tree of Norse Mythology

The Human Pyramids of Juste De Juste (ca. 1540)

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

The Geometric Landscapes of Lorenz Stoer (1567)

Persian Demons from a Book of Magic and Astrology (1921)

Various Apocalyptic Scenes from the Prophetic Messenger (ca. 1827–61)

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

Photographs of Japanese Sword Guards (1916)

Buffon and de Sève’s Quadrupeds (1754)

John O. Westwood’s Facsimiles of Anglo-Saxon and Irish Manuscripts (1868)

John Margolies’ Photographs of Roadside America

The Unicorn Tapestries (1495–1505)

Edward Lear’s Nonsense Botany (1871–77)