71 results filtered with: Curiosities and wonders
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Templum naturae historicum Henrici Kornmanni ex Kirchaina Chattorum in quo de natura et miraculis quatuor elementorum ignis, aeris, aquae, terrae, ita disseritur ut nihil de rerum principiis ... de aere ... de aqua ... de terra ... intactum praeteritum fiet / [Heinrich Kornmann].
Heinrich KornmannDate: 1611- Books
Curiosities and texts : the culture of collecting in early modern England / Marjorie Swann.
Swann, Marjorie (Marjorie E.)Date: [2001], ©2001- Books
La nature et les prodiges : l'insolite au 16e siècle, en France / Jean Céard.
Jean CéardDate: 1977
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A very large and ornate wine barrel, the Heidelberg Tun, being admired by fashionable visitors. Engraving, c. 1700.
Date: 1700Reference: 25735i- Books
Some human oddities : studies in the queer, the uncanny and the fanatical / [Eric John Dingwall].
Eric DingwallDate: 1947
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A very large and ornate wine barrel, the Heidelberg Tun, being admired by fashionable visitors. Engraving, c. 1700.
Date: 1700Reference: 25737i
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Chymia curiosa variis, non solum ex regno vegetabili, sed etiam ex minerali et animali, experimentis adornata.
Date: 1687
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An historical miscellany of the curiosities and rarities in nature and art. Comprising new and entertaining descriptions of the most surprising volcanos, caverns, cataracts, whirlpools, waterfalls, earthquakes, thunder, lightning, and other wonderful and stupendous phenomena of nature.
Date: [1794-1800]- Books
P.T. Barnum : the legend and the man / A.H. Saxon.
Arthur H. SaxonDate: [1989], ©1989
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Curiosités physiologiques : les hommes-phénomènes : force, agilité, adresse : hercules, coureurs, sauteurs, nageurs, plongeurs, gymnastes, équilibristes, disloqués, jongleurs, avaleurs de sabres, tireurs / par Guyot-Daubès.
Guyot-DaubésDate: [1885]- Books
The surprizing miracles of nature and art, in two parts / [R. B].
Nathaniel CrouchDate: 1685
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The wonders of the universe : a record of things wonderful and marvelous in nature, science, and art / introduction by Charles Barnard.
Date: [1885], ©1885- Books
Exploring the cultural history of continental European freak shows and 'enfreakment' / edited by Anna Kérchy and Andrea Zittlau.
Date: 2012- Books
Mysterious realms : probing paranormal, historical, and forensic enigmas / Joe Nickell with John F. Fischer.
Joe NickellDate: 1992- Books
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The true relation of two wonderfull sleepers : The one a woman in the little old Baily, her name Elizabeth Iefkins, who to the great admiration of the beholders, did sleep from Munday about 4 in the afternoone, July 25. untill the Saturday following, being August the first, at which time she dyed, with a particular relation of the strange passages during the time of her sleep, and the manner of her death. The other, being a man in Gravell-lane, by name John Underwood, hath already slept full nine dayes and nights, and doth still continue sleeping, with the most wonderfull manner of it.
Date: 1646- Books
A culture of fact : England, 1550-1720 / Barbara J. Shapiro.
Barbara J. ShapiroDate: 2000- Books
Stranger than fiction : essays / by Mike Jay.
Mike JayDate: 2018- Books
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Immortality in mortality magnifi'd in a strange (yet true) narration of one Master Pountney, merchant : sometimes living in the parish of Mary le Bow in Cheapside, who was buried in the chancell of the church of Leonard East-cheap, anno Dom. 1613. and was found on this present Feb. 15. 1647. whole and sound without any diminution or corruption of his members or body inward or outward, having lain in his grave (according to the precedent date, which is extracted from the register book of the aforesaid parish, Leonards East-cheap) 34 years, published as a wonder of wonders in this age. Printed and published according to order of Parliament.
Date: 1647- Books
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A brief collection of many rare secrets : many of which are approved and physical and the rest most pleasant and recreative : very necessary for all sorts of people / newly set forth and published by La Fountain, an expert operator.
La Fountaine.Date: 1650- Books
Synchronicity : a zine dedicated to examining astounding apophenic apparitions / by Chris Printed This.
Chris Printed ThisDate: [2023?]- Books
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Signes and wonders from heaven : With a true relation of a monster borne in Ratcliffe Highway, at the signe of the three Arrows, Mistris Bullock the midwife delivering here thereof. Also shewing how a cat kitned a monster in Lombard street in London. Likewise a new discovery of witches in Stepney parish. And how 20. witches more were executed in Suffoke this last assise. Also how the divell came to Soffam to a farmers house in the habit of a gentlewoman on horse-backe. With divers other strange remarkable passages.
Date: [1645]