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

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

Tales of the Catfish God: Earthquakes in Japanese Woodblock Prints (1855)

The World's First Costume Book: François Desprez's Collection of Various Clothing Styles (1562)

Season’s Bleatings: Finnish Photographs of the Nuuttipukki (1928)

Charles H. Bennett’s Shadows (ca. 1856)

Medieval Illustrations of Bonnacons

Photographs of the Los Angeles Alligator Farm (ca. 1907)

Jean Baptiste Vérany’s Chromolithographs of Cephalopods (1851)

Martin Frobenius Ledermüller’s Microscopic Delights (1759–63)

Beetle Carapaces in Basohli Miniature Paintings (ca. 1660–1700)

Levi Walter Yaggy’s Geographical Maps and Charts (1887/93)

Art Brut: The Scare-Fox (1910)

A Bestiary of Loss

Floating Phantoms: A. G. Mayer’s Medusae of the World (1910)

Howard Pyle's The Mermaid (1910)

Jan Luyken’s Frontispiece for Osteologia (1680)

Ferdinand van Kessel’s Four Parts of the World (ca. 1689)

Bruegel the Elder’s Big Fish Eat Little Fish (1556)

Unnatural Selection: Emil Schachtzabel’s Pigeon Prachtwerk (1906)

Between Frogs and Gods: Illustrations of Physiognomy

Clavis Artis by “Zoroaster”

Adolf Schmidt’s Atlas der Diatomaceenkunde (1890)

John Singleton Copley’s Watson and the Shark (1778)