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Albinism

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  • S. Watson's Grand American Museum 28, Oxford Street : Living curiosities! From all parts of the world ...
  • S. Watson's Grand American Museum, 28 Oxford Street : Living curiosities from all parts of the world : Captain Alexander, the giant of giants... [etc.].
  • Two plants (Pisonia sylvestris and Pisonia alba ): flowering and leafy shoots with separate numbered flower and fruit sections. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c.1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten.
  • S. Watson's Grand American Museum, 28 Oxford Street : Living curiosities from all parts of the world : Captain Alexander, the giant of giants... [etc.].
  • To be seen at the Black Peruke, facing the mews, Charing-Cross ... : White negress : account of white negroes.
  • Last week of the extraordinary and wonderful Albino Family : white negroes, or moors, from Madagascar, consisting of a husband, wife and child ... : What can they be? ... What is it? ... More wonderful curiosities! The original Siamese twins Chan and Eng ... / P.T. Barnum.
  • Wonderful phenomen of nature : just arrived, and to be seen every day at the Lyceum, Strand, the three wonders of the age!!! : Miss Crawley, the beautiful albiness, and her two brothers.
  • S. Watson's Grand American Museum 28, Oxford Street : Living curiosities! From all parts of the world ...
  • Last week of the extraordinary and wonderful Albino Family : white negroes, or moors, from Madagascar, consisting of a husband, wife and child ... : What can they be? ... What is it? ... More wonderful curiosities! The original Siamese twins Chan and Eng ... / P.T. Barnum.
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Catalogue

    • Ephemera

    Oversize ephemera. EPH+35.

    • Ephemera
    • Online

    S. Watson's Grand American Museum, 28 Oxford Street : Living curiosities from all parts of the world : Captain Alexander, the giant of giants... [etc.].

    | Date: [1885]
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    • Online

    On the zoölogical position of the albino rat / Shinkishi Hatai.

    Hatai, Shinkishi. | Date: 1907
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    A monograph on albinism in man / by Karl Pearson, E. Nettleship, and C.H. Usher.

    Pearson, Karl, 1857-1936. | Date: 1911-
    • Ephemera
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    S. Watson's Grand American Museum 28, Oxford Street : Living curiosities! From all parts of the world ...

    | Date: [1885]
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