Wayang Kulit: Raden Soelardi’s Illustrations of Javanese Puppets (1919)

Snail Homes, Bog Bodies, and Mechanical Flies: Robert Testard’s Illustrations for Les secretz de l’histoire naturelle (ca. 1485)

Paramaribo and the Plantation: Gerrit Schouten’s Dioramas of Suriname (1810–30)

The Shadow of Desire: Painting the Origins of Art (ca. 1625–1850)

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

Flowers of Fealty: Wilhelm Dilich’s Commemoration of the Christening of Elisabeth of Hesse (1598)

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

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

Photographs of the Samaritan Passover on Mount Gerizim (1917)

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

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

Piled High: 17th-Century Dutch Banquet Scenes

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

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

Antiquities of Mexico (1831–48)

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

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

Flemish Proverbs by Jan Wierix (ca. 1568)

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

Clear Shadows (1867)

Masters of the Ice: Charles Rabot’s Arctic Photographs (ca. 1881)

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

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

Chromolithographs of Paper Lanterns (ca. 1880)