Unbridled Passions: The Eight Horses of King Mu, Son of Heaven (ca. 1300)

Flights of Fancy: The Nine Birds of Jacques de Fornazeris (1594)

Nature Morte: Chaïm Soutine’s Still Lifes (ca. 1920s)

“Quaint Dessert Dishes” in American Homes and Gardens (1911)

Animal Costumes from the 1862 Fairytale Ball of the Jung-München Artist’s Association

The Nature of the Beast: Charles le Brun’s Human-Animal Hybrids (1806)

The Cat’s Maew: Thai Treatise on Auspicious Felines (19th Century)

Off with Their Heads: Illustrations of Blemmyes (ca. 1175–1724)

Bernard Sleigh’s Anciente Mappe of Fairyland (ca. 1920 edition)

Gilded Fish: Illustrations from Histoire naturelle des dorades de la Chine (1780)

Sheet Mewsic: Moritz von Schwind’s Katzensymphonie (1868)

Through a Glass Lushly: Michalina Janoszanka’s Reverse Paintings (ca. 1920s)

The Mermaid “at Home!” (1809)

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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