Prodigiorum ac ostentorum chronicon, : quae praeter naturae ordinem, motum, et operationem, et in superioribus & his inferioribus mundi regionibus, ... / per Conradum Lycosthenem.

A very large and ornate wine barrel, the Heidelberg Tun, being admired by fashionable visitors. Engraving, c. 1700.

The world of wonders : a record of things wonderful in nature, science, and art.

Thirty tobacco-pipes from various countries of the world. Wood engraving, c. 1873, after J. T. Balcomb.

187 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations, frontispiece ; (12mo)

Extraordinary adventures, revolutions, and events. Being an account of divers stupendious [sic] accidents, strange deliverances, signal mutations in the fortunes of several famous men, and changes of government in many countries. With other observable passages in divers kingdoms, states and provinces throughout the world : enlivened with pictures, for their better illustration / by R.B.

8 unnumbered pages, 199 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 1 unnumbered folded leaf of plates ; 14 cm (12mo)

Antidotum melancholiæ vel, Schola curiositatis : omnibus hypochondriacis & atrabili laborantibus, sive fratribus spleneticis & melancholicis, vulgo denen Miltzbrüdern, aperta / a praenobili & expertissimo domino, Dn. Gaudioso von Fürvvitzhausen.

Curiosities of natural history / by Francis T. Buckland.

xi, 192 pages, 12 unnumbered leaves of plates : frontispiece, illustrations ; (12mo)

Curiosities for the ingenious : selected from the most authentic treasures of nature, science and art, biography, history and general literature.

8 unnumbered leaves, 358 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf ; (folio)

A world of wonders: or an introduction to a treatise touching the conformitie of ancient and modern wonders: or a preparative treatise to the apologie for Herodotus the argument whereof is taken from the Apologie for Herodotus / written in Latine by Henry Stephen, and continued here by the Author himselfe ; Translated out of the best corrected French copie [by R. Carew].

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Antidotum melancholiæ vel, Schola curiositatis : omnibus hypochondriacis & atrabili laborantibus, sive fratribus spleneticis & melancholicis, vulgo denen Miltzbrüdern, aperta / a praenobili & expertissimo domino, Dn. Gaudioso von Fürvvitzhausen.

Curiosities of natural history / by Francis T. Buckland.

Curiosities for the ingenious : selected from the most authentic treasures of nature, science and art, biography, history and general literature.

Curiosities and wonders

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Antidotum melancholiæ vel, Schola curiositatis : omnibus hypochondriacis & atrabili laborantibus, sive fratribus spleneticis & melancholicis, vulgo denen Miltzbrüdern, aperta / a praenobili & expertissimo domino, Dn. Gaudioso von Fürvvitzhausen.

Curiosities of natural history / by Francis T. Buckland.

Curiosities for the ingenious : selected from the most authentic treasures of nature, science and art, biography, history and general literature.

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