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

The Gilded Gallows of Georg Honauer (1597)

Professor Megalow's Dinosaur Bones: Richard Owen and Victorian literature

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

Annie Besant and Charles Leadbeater's Occult Chemistry (1908)

The Defenestrations of Prague (1419–1997)

A Family Tree: Hippolyte Hodeau's Trench Art (Ca. 1917)

Flemish Proverbs by Jan Wierix (ca. 1568)

Maria Sibylla Merian's Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium (1705)

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

From Snowdrop to Nightjar: Robert Marsham's "Indications of Spring" (1789)

The Age of Impoliteness: Galateo: Or, a Treatise on Politeness (1774 Edition)

The substantiality of spirit: Georgiana Houghton's pictures from the other side

Lithographs from Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn's Java-Album (1854)

Eugène-François Vidocq and the Birth of the Detective

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

Masters of the Ice: Charles Rabot's Arctic Photographs (Ca. 1881)

Clear Shadows (1867)

The Early History of the Channel Tunnel

Books fatal to their authors (1895)

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The First Costume Book: 1562

Rhapsodies in Blue: Anna Atkins' Cyanotypes

The Reluctant Levitator: Teresa of Avila's Humble Raptures

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

Modernity in the Rainforest: Man and his Desire (1917)

Cliché-Verre and Friendship in 19th-Century France

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

Humanity 101: The Syllabus of Frankenstein's Monster

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