Elizabeth I’s Manuscript Copy of Pierre Boaistuau’s Histoires Prodigieuses (1559)

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

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)

Tangled Dürer: The Six Knots (ca. before 1521)

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

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

Vanity of Vanities: Fool’s Cap Map of the World (ca. 1585)

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

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

Antiquities of Mexico (1831–48)

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

The Gilded Gallows of Georg Honauer (1597)

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

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

Flemish Proverbs by Jan Wierix (ca. 1568)

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

Paper Gems: Early Modern Blackwork Prints

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

A Bestiary of Loss

Visualising Bubbles (1500–1906)

Alexander in the Bathysphere

Ostentatio Genitalium in Renaissance Art

Philipp Hainhofer’s Große Stammbuch (1596–1633)