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

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

José Guadalupe Posada's Engravings of Unusual Births (Ca. 1880–1910)

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

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

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

The Human Alphabet

Piled High: 17th-Century Dutch Banquet Scenes

The color and color-patterns of moths and butterflies (1897)

Designing the Sublime Boullée and Ledoux's Architectural Revolution

Perpetual Movement: Francis Picabia's 391 Review (1917–1924)

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

Celestial Phenomena in 16th-Century Germany

Gods: Charles Fort's Book of the Damned (1919)

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True Crime: Allan Pinkerton's Thirty Years a Detective (1884)

Tempest Anderson: Pioneer of Volcano Photography (2015)

Diagramming Dante: Michelangelo Caetani's Maps of the Divina Commedia (1855)

"Here I Gather All the Friends" Machiavelli and Emergence of the Private Study

"Here I Gather All the Friends" Machiavelli and Emergence of the Private Study

Anton Seder's the Animal in Decorative Art (1896)

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

Hokusai's five ghoulish prints for the series Hyaku Monogatari (ca. 1830)

A collection of Halloween postcards from "golden age" of picture postcards

Vanity of Vanities: Fool's Cap Map of the World (Ca. 1585)

A Man and the Crowd (1928)

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

Gottfried Mind, the Raphael of Cats

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

Antiquities of Mexico (1831–48)

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