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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.
Rymsdyk, Jan van, active 1750-1788.Date: 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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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.
Förster, August, 1822-1865.Date: 1861
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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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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.
Childrey, J. (Joshua), 1623-1670.Date: 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.
Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Etienne, 1772-1844.Date: 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.
Vater, Abraham, 1684-1751.Date: M DCC XXVI. [1726]
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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.
Steiger, BradDate: [1968]
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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].
Kornmann, Heinrich, approximately 1580-approximately 1640.Date: 1611
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La nature et les prodiges : l'insolite au 16e siècle, en France / Jean Céard.
Céard, Jean.Date: 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
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Some human oddities : studies in the queer, the uncanny and the fanatical / [Eric John Dingwall].
Dingwall, Eric John.Date: 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]
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P.T. Barnum : the legend and the man / A.H. Saxon.
Saxon, A. H.Date: [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-Daubès.Date: [1885]
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The surprizing miracles of nature and art, in two parts / [R. B].
R. B., approximately 1632-approximately 1725.Date: 1685

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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.

Curiosités des inventions et découvertes.

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

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.

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.

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

New UFO breakthrough / Brad Steiger and Joan Whritenour.

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].

La nature et les prodiges : l'insolite au 16e siècle, en France / Jean Céard.

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

Some human oddities : studies in the queer, the uncanny and the fanatical / [Eric John Dingwall].

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

Chymia curiosa variis, non solum ex regno vegetabili, sed etiam ex minerali et animali, experimentis adornata.

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.

P.T. Barnum : the legend and the man / A.H. Saxon.

Curiosités physiologiques : les hommes-phénomènes : force, agilité, adresse : hercules, coureurs, sauteurs, nageurs, plongeurs, gymnastes, équilibristes, disloqués, jongleurs, avaleurs de sabres, tireurs / par Guyot-Daubès.

The surprizing miracles of nature and art, in two parts / [R. B].