The Art of Kite Flying (1430–1929)

Longitude by Way of Wounded Hounds: Kenelm Digby’s Sympathetick Powder (1669 edition)

Pyramid of the Capitalist System (1911)

Pigeons Transmogrified: Hannah Glasse’s Art of Cookery (1751 edition)

Sekka Zusetsu: A Book of Snowflakes (1832)

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

A Prophet of the Weather: Lantern Slides by Clement Lindley Wragge (ca. 1900–22)

“That’s Why We Become Witches”: Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Lolly Willowes (1926)

A Treatise on the All-Healing Qualities of Earth Bathing (1790)

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

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

Perspiration, Bilocation, and Plagiarisation: “The Heat Wave” (1929)

The “Private” Photographs of Bolette Berg and Marie Høeg (ca. 1895–1903)

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

Charles Davy’s Conjectural Observations on the Origin and Progress of Alphabetic Writing (1772)

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

“The Great Enigma of Our Times”: Henry George’s Poverty and Progress (1881 edition)

Charles Butler’s The Feminine Monarchie, or the History of Bees (1634 edition)

Nikolai Agnivtsev’s Little Screw (1925)

Oskar Kokoschka, Hermine Moos, and the Alma Mahler Doll

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

Bedded Bugs and Stung Beetles: The Cameraman’s Revenge (1912)

Ostrich Egg-Shell Cups of Mesopotamia and the Ostrich in Ancient and Modern Times (1926)

Master of Claude de France’s Book of Flower Studies (ca. 1510–1515)

The Drift of Things: David Goodman Croly’s Glimpses of the Future (1888)

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

Reality Iced: Robert J. Flaherty’s Nanook of the North (1922)

Peckish Alphabetics: The Tragical Death of a Apple-Pye (ca. 1793–1796)

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

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

Aphrodisiacs and Anti-Aphrodisiacs (1869)

Sabine Baring-Gould’s Book of Were-Wolves (1865)

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)

“Freedom! Equality!! Justice!!!”: Victoria Woodhull’s Impending Revolution (1872)

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)

Edwin D. Babbitt’s Principles of Light and Color (1878)

Luigi Cornaro’s Sure and Certain Methods of Attaining a Long and Healthful Life (1722 edition)

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

The Plague of Lust: Being a History of Venereal Disease in Classical Antiquity (1901 edition)

Lonely Together: Paul Fejos’ Lonesome (1928)

Johannes Hartlieb’s Book of Herbs (1462)

American Grammar: Diagraming Sentences in the 19th Century

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

“On This Desolate Island”: Sodomy Punish’d (1726)

Chromatic Aberrations: The Toll of the Sea (1922)

Mayday, Mayday: Capital and Labor (1907)

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

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

Edith Wharton’s Italian Villas and their Gardens (1904)

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

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

Tom Seidmann-Freud’s Book of Hare Stories (1924)

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

I Also Am Formed Out of the Clay: Animated Putty (1911)

The Age of Impoliteness: Galateo: or, A Treatise on Politeness and Delicacy of Manners (1774 edition)

Unwashed Furry Masses: Wanda Gág’s Millions of Cats (1928)

Never-again Land: J. M. Barrie's My Lady Nicotine (1896)

As Loud as a Mouse: Mickey’s Sonic Debut in Steamboat Willie (1928)

The Afterimage of Death: Dr. Berkeley's Discovery (1889)

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

Wreathed in Pastiche: Max Beerbohm’s Christmas Garland (1912)

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

Chromolithographs of Paper Lanterns (ca. 1880)

Humanity 101: The Syllabus of Frankenstein's Monster

Divide and Concur: A Radical Plan for Peace in Europe (1920)

A Melting Cauldron: The Book of Hallowe’en (1919)

Pantographia: A Specimen Book of All the Alphabets Known on Earth (1799)

A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words (1860)

“Those Disturbers of my Rest”: The First Treatise on Bedbugs (1730)

Specimens of Fancy Turning (1869)

The Comic Natural History of the Human Race (1851)

My Body is a Temple Four-Story House: Analogical Diagram from Tobias Cohen’s Ma’aseh Tuviyah (1708)

Unidentified Floating Object: Edo Images of Utsuro-bune

Denishawn Dance Film (ca. 1916)

Medieval Illustrations of Bonnacons

Peking Opera Characters (ca. 1900)

Punctuation Personified (1824)

Shy Guy (1947)

Dentologia: A Poem on the Diseases of the Teeth (1833)

Blights of the Bookish: An Essay on Diseases Incidental to Literary and Sedentary Persons (1768)

Cultus Arborum: A Descriptive Account of Phallic Tree Worship (1890)

“March of Intellect” Cartoons (1828–29)

Law and Ordure: Scatalogic Rites of All Nations (1891)

Dool-Hoff: A Dutch Maze with New Jerusalem at its Centre (1705)

Downhill from Here: The Slant Book (1910)

A Treatise Concerning the Properties and Effects of Coffee (1792)

James Ensor, The Deadly Sins (ca. 1904)

Battles of the Sexes: Duels between Women and Men in 1400s Fechtbücher

The Book of Bread (1903)

The Procession of the Months (ca. 1889)

Mighty Mikko: A Book of Finnish Fairy Tales and Folk Tales (1922)

A Pantomime and Masquerade: Trivia: or, the Art of Walking the Streets of London (1716)

Wheels Within Wheels: The “Flammarion Engraving” (ca. 1888)

Shadows from the Walls of Death (1874)

Black Bibliography: Daniel Murray’s Preliminary List (1900)

“Mother Will Be Pleased”: How It Feels to Be Run Over (1900)

Trimalchio in Newburyport: Timothy Dexter’s A Pickle for the Knowing Ones (1848)

Visualising Bubbles (1500–1906)

Peter Fabris’ Illustrations for William Hamilton’s Campi Phlegraei (1776–79)

It Started with Muybridge (1964)

Portrait of Charlotte du Val d’Ognes (1801)

Fearful Symmetry: Inkblot Books (1857–1915)

Alexander in the Bathysphere

Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies (1757–95)

Jan Luyken’s Frontispiece for Osteologia (1680)

Ostentatio Genitalium in Renaissance Art

“The Rainbow for their Guide”: Mary Gartside’s New Theory of Colours (1808)

Earthen Messages: Nikola Tesla in his Laboratory (ca. 1899)

Cycling Art, Energy, and Locomotion (1889)

Albrecht Dürer’s Pillow Studies (1493)

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

William James on the Stream of Consciousness (1890)

The Holkham Bible Picture Book (ca. 1330)

Resurrection on Repeat: Rules and Orders of the Humane Society (1787)

Reciting Pictures: Buddhist Texts for the Illiterate

Between Frogs and Gods: Illustrations of Physiognomy

Gustave Zander and the 19th-Century Gym

Snowball Fights in Art (1400–1946)

Odd Showers (1870)

Clavis Artis by “Zoroaster”

Imaging Inscape: The Human Soul (1913)

Theresa Babb’s Photographs of Friendship (ca. 1898)

Aspirated Aspirations: Alfred Leach’s The Letter H (1880)

Designs from Kimono Pattern Books (ca. 1902)

An Iconic Line: Claude Mellan’s The Sudarium of Saint Veronica (1649)

“When London is in Ruins”: Gustave Doré’s The New Zealander (1872)

Zanzibar Tales (1901)

Lithographs from M. E. Descourtilz’s Atlas des Champignons (1827)

The Ascent of Mont-Blanc (ca. 1855)

A Monster in the Heart: Edward May’s A Most Certaine and True Relation (1639)

Adolf Schmidt’s Atlas der Diatomaceenkunde (1890)

A Modest Apology for the Man in the Bottle (1749)

700 Years of Dante’s Divine Comedy in Art

Figure/Ground: Alphonse Allais’ April Fools Album (1897)

A Treatise on Artificial Limbs (1899)

Festooned: Martin Gerlach’s Decorative Groupings (1897)

Astronomia Playing Cards (1829)

Albert Millican’s Travels and Adventures of an Orchid Hunter (1891)

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

Solid Objects: 16th-Century Geometric and Perspective Drawings

John Uri Lloyd’s Etidorhpa (1895)

Flowers of Fire: Illustrations from Japanese Fireworks Catalogues (ca. 1880s)

Seeking Enlightenment: Denis Diderot’s Letter on the Blind (1749)

Lewis Carroll’s Illustrations for “Alice’s Adventures Under Ground” (1864)

Alien Aqueducts: The Maps of Martian Canals

Clouds of Unknowing: Edward Quin’s Historical Atlas (1830)

The Zodiac Man

On the Road: The Woman and the Car (1909)

Visualizing Migraines: The Attempts of Hubert Airy and Others to Depict Scintillating Scotomata

A Remembrance of Aerial Forms: Odilon Redon’s À Edgar Poe (1882)

On Sprezzatura: Baldassare Castiglione’s The Book of the Courtier (1903 edition)

Visualizing History: The Polish System

William Blake’s The Gates of Paradise (1787-93)

The Future Imagined in Albert Robida’s La vie électrique (1890)

Images of Hatha Yoga from the Joga Pradīpikā (19th century)

Agostino Ramelli’s Theatre of Machines (1588)

English Translation of Finland’s Epic Poem, The Kalevala (1898)

The Universe as Pictured in Milton’s Paradise Lost (1915)

A Book of Stone: Adam Wirsing’s Marmora (1776)

The Story of Napoleon’s Death Mask (1915)

Serviette Sculptures: Mattia Giegher’s Treatise on Napkin Folding (1629)

Don Quixote in the 20th Century (ca. 1905)

Comparative Physiognomy: or, Resemblances Between Men and Animals (1852)

Erotic Cameos from Antiquity (ca. 1771)

Speech of Satan to his Legions from A System of Elocution (1846)

The Art of Swimming (1587)

Fortunio Liceti’s Monsters (1665)

Photographs of Auto Polo (ca. 1912)

Frederick Whitney’s Blackboard Sketching (1909)

The Corset X-Rays of Dr Ludovic O’Followell (1908)

Magic: Stage Illusions and Scientific Diversions (1897)

On the Writing of the Insane (1870)

Snowflakes: A Chapter From the Book of Nature (1863)

Owen Jones’ Examples of Chinese Ornament (1867)

The Proper Art of Writing (1655)

I Dub Thee “Fly-Fornication”: Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature (1880)

J. J. Grandville’s Illustrations from The Flowers Personified (1847)

Manuscript of Ismail al-Jazarī’s Ingenious Mechanical Devices (ca. 17th century)

Lost Futures: A 19th-Century Vision of the Year 2000

Images from Japanese Design Magazine Shin-Bijutsukai (1902)

Dances in Beauchamp-Feuillet Notation (1701)

Harry Clarke’s Illustrations for Poe’s Tales of Mystery and Imagination (1919)

Halloween Postcards, ca. 1900–1920

The Diary of a Nobody (1919 edition)

“Knowledge Is Infinite”: Manuscript of Piri Reis’ Book of Seafaring (ca. 17th Century)

Frankenstein (1910)