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"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)

Scenes of Reading on the Early Portrait Postcard

The Plague of Lust: A History of Venereal Disease in Antiquity (1901 Edition)

Wordsworth Donisthorpe, Blackmail, and the First Motion Pictures

Johannes Hartlieb's Book of Herbs (1462)

Diagraming sentences in the 19th century

From Fire Hazards to Family Trees: The Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps

Eye Miniatures (ca. 1790–1810)

Programming Prayer: The Woven Book of Hours (1886–87)

“You Are My Friend”: Early Androids and Artificial Speech

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)

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