Fig. 05. The earliest known xyloteque is the Schildbachsche Holzbibliothek (1771–99) at the Ottoneum, the natural history museum of Kassel. For dOCUMENTA (13) in 2012, the artist Mark Dion designed a hexagonal oak wood display cabinet for its 530 different volumes. Photo: Mark Dion, Xylotheque (2011–12). Wood, glass, electric lighting, porcelain cabinet knobs, wood inlay, plant parts, paper, papier-mâché, clay, wax, paint, wire, vellum, leather, plastic, ink. Installation view at DOCUMENTA (13). Image courtesy of the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York. Photo by Anders Sune Berg.