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Emblems of rarities: or choyce observations out of worthy histories of many remarkable passages, and renowned actions of divers princes and severall nations. With Exquisite Variety, and speciall Collections of the natures of most sorts of Creatures: delightfull and profitable to the Minde ... / Collected by D.L.
Lupton, Donald, -1676.Date: 1636- Books
Histoires prodigieuses extraictes de plusieurs fameux auteurs, grecs & latins, sacrez & prophanes / mises en nostre langue par P. Boaistuau, sournommé Launay, natif de Bretagne. Augmentées outre les précédentes impressions de six histoires advennues de nostre temps adjoustées par F. de Belle-forest comingeois, avec les portraicts & figures.
Boaistuau, Pierre, -1566.Date: 1575- Pictures
The brain, sectioned vertically; showing the sites of some phrenological faculties. Process print, 1901, after etching, 1809.
Date: 1901Reference: 28020i- Books
Natura prodigiorum: or, a discourse touching the nature of prodigies. Together with the kinds, causes and effects, of comets, eclipses, and earthquakes. With an appendix touching the imposturism of the commonly-received doctrine of prophecies, spirits, images, sigils, lamens, the christal, &c. and the propugners of such opinions / By John Gadbury.
Gadbury, John, 1627-1704.Date: 1660
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Certaine secrete wonders of nature, containing a descriptiõ of sundry strange things, seming monstrous in our eyes and iudgement, bicause we are not priuie to the reasons of them. Gathered out of diuers learned authors as well Greeke as Latine, sacred as prophane / [By Pierre Boaistuau. Translated] By E. Fenton.
Boaistuau, Pierre, -1566.Date: 1569