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A history of the Evil One, from the earliest times to the present.

Carl Jung’s copy of an alchemical hoax, purporting to detail the discovery of the Philosopher’s Stone.

Erasmus called them “little moons” and George Puttenham praised them as “figures of tolerable disorder” (if used not too often “nor too thic

Choice excerpts from *Leaves of Grass* that speak to Whitman’s conception of immortality.

Early surgical diagrams that present patients prying themselves open for our anatomical gaze.

An illuminated Persian manuscript about customs, culture, and caste, written by an enigmatic figure of the early British Raj.

By manipulating paper flaps, the child could turn Adam into Eve into a mermaid, a lion into a griffin into an eagle — all while learning abo

Vibrant textiles from the dazzling Timurid metropolis of Bukhara.