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)

Thomas Eakins’ Photograph of a Dissected Horse’s Leg (ca. 1885)

Raffaele Mainella’s Illustrations for Nos Invisibles (1907)

Looking Backward: Images of Rückenfiguren (ca. 1497–1925)

The Lens of Desire: Eye Miniatures (ca. 1790–1810)

“Chinese Arabesques” by Jean-Baptiste Pillement and Anne Allen (ca. 1790–99)

Love Spells and Deadly Shrieks: Illustrations of Mandrakes (ca. 650–1927)

The Gilded Gallows of Georg Honauer (1597)

Photographs of Life in Palestine (ca. 1896–1919)

Maria Catharina Prestel’s Printed Cabinet of Drawings (ca. 1780s)

Signs and Wonders: Celestial Phenomena in 16th-Century Germany

Grotesqueries at Gethsemane: Marcus Gheeraerts’ Passio Verbigenae (ca. 1580)

A Family Tree: Hippolyte Hodeau’s Trench Art (ca. 1917)

Flemish Proverbs by Jan Wierix (ca. 1568)

The Art of Sutherland Macdonald, Victorian England’s “Michelangelo of Tattooing” (ca. 1905)

Maria Sibylla Merian’s Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium (1705)