A Collection of Fashionable English Words (1887)

Images from German “Caterpillar Calendar” (1837)

George Mayerle’s Eye Test Chart (ca. 1907)

The Whims (1799) and The Follies (1815–23) of Francisco Goya

The “Salad Oil Style” of Jan Toorop

Diagrams from Dr Alesha Sivartha’s Book of Life (1898)

The Model Book of Calligraphy (1561–1596)

Alphonse Bertillon’s Synoptic Table of Physiognomic Traits (ca. 1909)

The Civil War Sketches of Adolph Metzner (1861–64)

On the Disposition of Iron in Variegated Strata (1868)

Émile-Antoine Bayard’s Illustrations for Around the Moon by Jules Verne (1870)

Illustrations from the Lights of Canopus (1847)

Chladni Figures (1787)

Kusakabe Kimbei’s Photographs of Late 19th-Century Japan

William Sharp’s Chromolithographs of The Great Water Lily (1854)

The Heart of Man; Either a Temple of God, or a Habitation of Satan; Represented in Ten Emblematical Figures (1851)

Music in the Margins: The Funeral of Reynard the Fox (13th century)

The Concealed Erotic Paintings of Sommonte (19th Century)

Alexander Graham Bell’s Tetrahedral Kites (1903–9)

Geographical Fun: Being Humourous Outlines of Various Countries (1868)

The Flower of Battle: Italian Fighting Manual (ca. 1410)

Photographs of Sea Stars (1917)

The War Art of Paul Nash (1917–1944)

The Maps of Matrakçı Nasuh, Ottoman Polymath