Flemish Proverbs by Jan Wierix (ca. 1568)

The Art of Sutherland Macdonald, Victorian England’s “Michelangelo of Tattooing” (ca. 1905)

Maria Sibylla Merian’s Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium (1705)

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

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

Sheet Music Covers for the Gotham-Attucks Company, ca. 1905–1911

Paper Gems: Early Modern Blackwork Prints

Clear Shadows (1867)

Masters of the Ice: Charles Rabot’s Arctic Photographs (ca. 1881)

The Landlord's Game: Lizzie Magie and Monopoly's Anti-Capitalist Origins (1903)

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

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

Chromolithographs of Paper Lanterns (ca. 1880)

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

Ikkyū in Hell: Skeletons (1692)

Your Flannelette Cure: Fire Tests with Textiles (1910)

Aftershock of the New: Woodblock Prints of Post-Disaster Tokyo (1928–32)

Käthe Kollwitz’s Peasants’ War Series (ca. 1901–1908)

Charles H. Bennett’s Shadows (ca. 1856)

Behold the Nebulous Smear: ‘Abd al-Rahmān al-Sūfī’s Illustrated Book of Fixed Stars (ca. 1430)

A Careful Selection of Whisk Ferns (1837)

The Works of Mars (1671)

The “Madame B Album” (ca. 1870s)

Hokusai’s Illustrated Warrior Vanguard of Japan and China (1836)