The Walker Library of the History of Human Imagination
The Walker Library of the History of Human Imagination
A leaf from a 1440 Illuminated Flemish Book of Hours.
A leaf from a 1440 Illuminated Flemish Book of Hours.
A page from a Bills of Mortality summarizing the week’s deaths from the plague year of 1667.
A miniaturist’s on-site painting of one of Napoleon’s battles (one of a series commissioned by Napoleon).
A 17th century book of flowers hand painted for botanical accuracy.
A 16th century allegorical image of the transportation of sinners to Hell.
Early 17th century atlas title page.
The first image of the eye of a fly through a microscope, published in Hooke’s Micrographia (circa 1666).
16th century Spanish explorers found Florida’s native inhabitants far less inhibited.
Hand-painted Albini images of highly accurate anatomical engravings (circa 1746).
An Armenian Bible’s illustration of sinners pulling the righteous into Hell.
A Gilroy hand-colored political cartoon from London made in 1799.
A German royal album binding from 1825.
An image of a Dutch nobility from a collection of engravings (circa 1825).
A field surgeon’s kit from the American Civil War.
A royal hand-painted copy of King George IV from his coronation album (circa 1834)
Flag flown to the Moon and back on Apollo 11, the first manned lunar landing.
An original backup of the first artificial space satellite, Sputnik.
Maseigni’s life-size engravings of the human body, hand-painted in 1806.
Ivory carving from the cover of a 15th century bible.
Inside cover of a jeweled binding.
A full skeleton of a juvenile raptor.
A clutch of fossilized dinosaur eggs.
Photograph of Abraham Lincoln from his first presidential campaign.
A globe of the Moon signed by 10 of the 12 astronauts to have walked on its surface.
Photograph of The Endurance, Ernest Shackleton’s ship, in a failed expedition to the South Pole.
Near life-size hand-colored anatomical illustration by Gaotier, entitled Flayed Angel.
The Lidless Eye of Sauron on a first edition binding of The Lord of the Rings, made by Philip Smith.
Binding cover produced by Proust.
The Uranometer, the last great celestial star atlas produced in 1800, hand painted.
Box of replacement eyes from the American Civil War.
A first edition Encyclopedia Britannica, published in 1768.
A page from Gould’s Toucans – each page is hand-painted.
Two pages from a Cellarius, the first celestial atlas with the Sun at the center of the solar system.
Hand-painted illustration of Noah’s Ark from the Nuremburg Chronicles, the first illustrated history book (circa 1493).
Explosives for sale from a 17th century German catalogue of arms and munitions.
A French map from 1692 that depicts California as an island.
An Egyptian wooden sarcophagus (approx. 1800 BC).
