José Guadalupe Posada’s Engravings of Unusual Births (ca. 1880–1910)

Gustatory Wisdom: Bruegel the Elder’s Twelve Proverbs (1558)

What Is It Like to Be a Bass? Fish-Eye View Photography (1919–22)

Pied Beauty: Wari Tie-Dye Textiles (ca. 425–1100)

George Baxter’s Print of Crystal Palace Dinosaurs (ca. 1854)

A Wetted Beak: Engravings from Pauline Knip’s Les Pigeons (1811)

Piled High: 17th-Century Dutch Banquet Scenes

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

“How He Came to Life One Day”: Photographs of Snowmen (1854–1950)

Fantastic Planet: The Microscopy Album of Marinus Pieter Filbri (1887–88)

Diagramming Dante: Michelangelo Caetani’s Maps of the Divina Commedia (1855/1872)

Christoph Jamnitzer’s Neuw Grotteßken Buch (1610)

“Light from the Darkness”: Paul Nash’s Genesis (1924)

Anton Seder’s The Animal in Decorative Art (1896)

Etching of a Sámi Drum from the Dutch Edition of Johannes Schefferus’ Lapponia (1682)

Vanity of Vanities: Fool’s Cap Map of the World (ca. 1585)

Yellow Silence: Miniature from the Silos Apocalypse (ca. 1100)

A Very Tall Tale: Photograph of the Cardiff Giant (ca. 1869)

Theodor de Bry’s Engravings for Thomas Harriot’s Briefe and True Report (1590)

Among the Moss Piglets: The First Image of a Tardigrade (1773)

Antiquities of Mexico (1831–48)

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

Johannes Hartlieb’s Book of Herbs (1462)

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