From The Boy Who Knew What the Birds Said by Padraic Colum, 1918.

"Third quarter," circa 1890.

Here's the moon from Songs of the Shining Way by Sarah Noble Ives, 1899.

Here's a precursor to the Broadway production A Little Night Music (1973), from Lives of the Hunted by Ernest Seton-Thompson, 1901.

From More Tales from the Arabian Nights by Edward William Lane and illustrated by Willy Pogany, 1915.

Here's one way to entice lunatics, New Zealand National Airways style.  Date uncertain.

From The Forester yearbook of Lake Forest University, 1911.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

From Mother West Wind "Why" Stories by Thornton Burgess and illustrated by Harrison Cady, 1915.

Trying to tell which end of the moon goes up, from Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1873.

From Les Mots Historiques du Pays de France by Edouard Trogan, 1915.

From The Fairy Godmother-In-Law by Oliver Herford, 1905.

How to find the Maid in the Moon, from 1896.  This discovery was also featured in an astronomy book, which we noted previously [here].  Recall also our proof that the Mona Lisa's facial features correspond to the lunar landscape.  

From Moving Pictures by Frederick Talbot, 1914.

Here's a pixelated scan of three crescent moons from Boletín Oficial de la República Argentina, 1905.

From c. 1890.