The Mowing-Devil (1678), or, the Earliest Known Depiction of a Crop Circle

The Language of Form: Lothar Schreyer’s Kreuzigung (1920)

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

“Light from the Darkness”: Paul Nash’s Genesis (1924)

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

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

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

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

The Geometric Landscapes of Lorenz Stoer (1567)

The Triumphal Arch of Emperor Maximilian I (1515)

Mnemonic Alphabet of Jacobus Publicius (1482)

Hans Holbein’s Dance of Death (1523–5)

The Drolatic Dreams of Pantagruel (1565)

A Collection of Fashionable English Words (1887)

The Heart of Man; Either a Temple of God, or a Habitation of Satan; Represented in Ten Emblematical Figures (1851)

The City of Truth, or, Ethics (1609)

Chirologia, or The Natural Language of the Hand (1644)

Kobayashi Kiyochika’s Cartoons of the Russo-Japanese War (1904–5)

The Steps of Life

Celestial Phenomenon Over Nuremberg, April 14th, 1561

Georg Bartisch’s Ophthalmodouleia (1583)

Flowers of the Sky

The Art of Swimming (1587)

Scenes relating to the life of Charles IV, King of Spain (1788)