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The world of wonders : a record of things wonderful in nature, science, and art.
Date: [1869?]
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Histoires prodigieuses : MS 136 Wellcome Library / Pierre Boaistuau ; sous la direction de Stephen Bamforth.
Pierre BoaistuauDate: 2000
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Prodigiorum ac ostentorum chronicon, : quae praeter naturae ordinem, motum, et operationem, et in superioribus & his inferioribus mundi regionibus, ... / per Conradum Lycosthenem.
Conrad LycosthenesDate: Mense Augusto anno MDLVII [1557]
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Wonders, marvels, and monsters in early modern culture / edited by Peter G. Platt.
Date: [1999], ©1999
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The history of man; or, the wonders of humane nature, in relation to the virtues, vices and defects of both sexes / With examples antient and modern. The whole work being intermixt with variety of useful and divertive relations, never before publish'd.
Date: 1704
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Petit ingenii largitor, ou le précis des raretés et curiosités de la nature. Tant en physique qu'en méchanique : où l'on dévoile aussi tous les genres de subtilités qu'on emploie pour la deguiser & jouer le grec ce qui sert à cultiver l'esprit en le recréant, & à la mettre en garde contre toute surprise rendu à la portée de tout le monde / par M. Dupuis Durand.
Dupuis Durand, M.Date: 1778
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Museum Britannicum; or, a display in thirty two plates, in [sic] antiquities and natural curiosities, in that noble and magnificent cabinet, the British Museum, after the original designs from nature / by John and Andrew van Rymsdyk, pictors.
Jan van RymsdykDate: 1791
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Curiosités des inventions et découvertes.
Date: 1855
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Wonders of nature science : an every day book for the student and intellectual observer.
Date: [1873?]
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A strange and miraculous accident happened in the cittie of Purmerent, on New-yeeres euen last past 1599 : Of a yong child which was heard to cry in the mothers wombe before it was borne, and about fourteene dayes of age, spake certaine sencible words, to the wonder of euery body.
Date: 1599
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Thirty tobacco-pipes from various countries of the world. Wood engraving, c. 1873, after J. T. Balcomb.
Balcomb, J. T.Date: 20 September 1873Reference: 25000i
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Die Missbildungen des Menschen : systematisch dargestellt / von Dr. August Förster.
August FörsterDate: 1861
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Wonderful news from Bristol : a true yet prodigious relation how a hen on the 3d of July last, brought into the world a kitling or young catt, to the unspeakable admiration of many people present : both the hen and catt being still alive attested by Elianor Holder, widdow, Mary, Joan, Martha, Sarah Holder, her daughters, Tho. Fisher, Tho. Holbrook, Sarah Holbrook, neighbors, all eye witnesses : for confirmation whereof, besides an affidavit taken before an alderman of Bristol, a true copy whereof is here annexed.
Date: 1676
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The Guinness book of animal facts and feats / by Gerald L. Wood.
Wood, Gerald L.Date: [1972]
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Le trésor de la curiosité tiré des catalogues de vente ... et précédé d'une lettre [de A.N. Thibaudeau] ... sur la curiosité et les curieux / [Charles Blanc].
Blanc, Ch.-P. (Charles-P.)Date: 1857-1858
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The wonders of nature and art; : being an account of whatever is most curious and remarkable throughout the world; whether relating to its animals, vegetables, minerals, volcanoes, cataracts, hot and cold springs, and other parts of natural history; or, to the buildings, manufactures, inventions, and discoveries of its inhabitants. The whole collected from the writings of the best historians, travellers, geographers, and philosophers, among which are some original manuscripts; interspersed with pious observations and reflections; illustrated with notes, and adorned with copper-plates.
Date: MDCCLXVIII. [1768]
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Ten thousand wonderful things : comprising the marvellous and rare, odd, curious, quaint, eccentric, and extraordinary, in all ages and nations ... / edited by Edmund Fillingham King.
Date: 1860
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A summers divertisemet of mathematical and mechanical curiosities : Being an account of the things seen at the House of Curiosities, near Grange Park. Part First.
Date: 1695
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Britannia Baconica: or, the natural rarities of England, Scotland, and Wales. According as they are to be found in every shire. Historically related, according to the precepts of the Lord Bacon, methodically digested; and the causes of many of them philosophically attempted ... / By J. Childrey.
Joshua ChildreyDate: 1661
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The British Apollo ... / containing two thousand answers to curious questions in most arts and sciences. Serious, comical, and humorous, approved of by many of the most learned and ingenious of both universities, and of the Royal-Society. Performed by a society of gentlemen.
Date: 1740
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Philosophie anatomique : des monstruosités humaines, ouvrage contenant une classification des monstres; la description et la comparaison des principaux genres ; une histoire raisonnée des phénomènes de la monstrosité et des faits primitifs qui la produisent ; des vues nouvelles touchant la nutrition du foetus et d'autres circonstances de son développement ; et la détermination des diverses parties de l'organe sexuel, pour en démontrer l'unité de composition, non-seulement chez les monstres, où l'altération des formes rend cet organe méconnaissable, mais dans les deux sexes, et, de plus, chez les oiseaux et chez les mammifrères / par M. le Ch[evali]er Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire.
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-HilaireDate: 1822
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Catalogus variorum exoticorum rarissimorum maximam partem incognitorum et nullibi descriptorum partim medicinae partim curiositati inseruientium quae in museo suo breui luci exponendo possidet / Abrahamus Vater D. et P.P Anat. et Botan. substitutus.
Abraham VaterDate: M DCC XXVI. [1726]
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An account, of a wonderfull child, born at Verona : in a letter, from Italy, to the Duke of Bavaria.
Date: [1700]
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Wild man or monster born on the borders of England and Normandy.
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New UFO breakthrough / Brad Steiger and Joan Whritenour.
Brad SteigerDate: [1968]

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

Histoires prodigieuses : MS 136 Wellcome Library / Pierre Boaistuau ; sous la direction de Stephen Bamforth.

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

Wonders, marvels, and monsters in early modern culture / edited by Peter G. Platt.

The history of man; or, the wonders of humane nature, in relation to the virtues, vices and defects of both sexes / With examples antient and modern. The whole work being intermixt with variety of useful and divertive relations, never before publish'd.

Museum Britannicum; or, a display in thirty two plates, in [sic] antiquities and natural curiosities, in that noble and magnificent cabinet, the British Museum, after the original designs from nature / by John and Andrew van Rymsdyk, pictors.

Curiosités des inventions et découvertes.

Wonders of nature science : an every day book for the student and intellectual observer.

A strange and miraculous accident happened in the cittie of Purmerent, on New-yeeres euen last past 1599 : Of a yong child which was heard to cry in the mothers wombe before it was borne, and about fourteene dayes of age, spake certaine sencible words, to the wonder of euery body.

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

Die Missbildungen des Menschen : systematisch dargestellt / von Dr. August Förster.

The Guinness book of animal facts and feats / by Gerald L. Wood.

Le trésor de la curiosité tiré des catalogues de vente ... et précédé d'une lettre [de A.N. Thibaudeau] ... sur la curiosité et les curieux / [Charles Blanc].

Ten thousand wonderful things : comprising the marvellous and rare, odd, curious, quaint, eccentric, and extraordinary, in all ages and nations ... / edited by Edmund Fillingham King.

A summers divertisemet of mathematical and mechanical curiosities : Being an account of the things seen at the House of Curiosities, near Grange Park. Part First.

Britannia Baconica: or, the natural rarities of England, Scotland, and Wales. According as they are to be found in every shire. Historically related, according to the precepts of the Lord Bacon, methodically digested; and the causes of many of them philosophically attempted ... / By J. Childrey.

The British Apollo ... / containing two thousand answers to curious questions in most arts and sciences. Serious, comical, and humorous, approved of by many of the most learned and ingenious of both universities, and of the Royal-Society. Performed by a society of gentlemen.

Catalogus variorum exoticorum rarissimorum maximam partem incognitorum et nullibi descriptorum partim medicinae partim curiositati inseruientium quae in museo suo breui luci exponendo possidet / Abrahamus Vater D. et P.P Anat. et Botan. substitutus.

An account, of a wonderfull child, born at Verona : in a letter, from Italy, to the Duke of Bavaria.

Wild man or monster born on the borders of England and Normandy.

New UFO breakthrough / Brad Steiger and Joan Whritenour.