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  • Two diagrams of conjoined twins, a foetus with a deformed head and face and an interior of a chest with two hearts. Line engraving.
  • Malformed foetuses and skeletons with part of the brain missing. Lithograph by Meunier, 1826.
  • A child with stumps for its limbs, being exhibited. Reproduction of a photograph.
  • Tabulae ad illustrandum embryogenesin hominis et mammalium, tam naturalem quam abnormen [De vrucht van den mensch en van de zoogdieren, etc / Auctore W. Vrolik.
  • Malformed foetuses and skeletons with part of the brain missing. Lithograph by Meunier, 1826.
  • Israel, a man with a figure protruding from his chest. Line engraving.
  • A tiny girl, known as the Fairy Queen, fourteen inches high, with her mother. Wood engraving, 1851.
  • Four grotesquely deformed children. Line engraving.
  • Two miniature people, known as the Aztec Lilliputians, with their manager. Lithograph by G. Wilkinson.
  • Description anatomique des parties de la femme, qui servent à la generation; avec un Traité des monstres [by F. Licetus], de leur causes, de leur nature, & de leur differences : et une description anatomique, de la disposition surprenante de quelques parties externes & internes de deux enfans nés dan la ville de Gand, capitale de Flandres le 28 avril 1703 ... &c. &c / par Jean Palfyn ; Lesquels ouvrages on peut considerer comme une suite de l'Accouchement des femmes. Par Monsr. Mauriceau.
  • These are to give notice, to all persons of quality and others, that there is newly come to this place a little Scotch man ... : he being but two foot and six inches high, and is near upon sixty years of age ...
  • The Siamese twins.
  • Johann Kleyser, a man born without arms. Aquatint.
  • Philosophie anatomique. Des organes respiratoires sous le rapport de la détermination et de l'idendité de leurs pièces osseuses. Avec figures des 116 nouvelles préparations d'anatomie / Par m. le Chevalier Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire.
  • [Leaflet advertising an appearance of a real mermaid and merman (caught off Terra del Fuego). Location not disclosed but printed in Lambeth (Phoenix Printing Office)].
  • A female foetus of six inches in length with over-developed genitals. Engraving by J. Daullé after J. de Sève, 1749.
  • The surprising little man : being a person of twenty-two years of age, yet no more than three feet two inches high ...
  • Wonderful phenomena of nature : a female child, (a twin,) 11 years of age, 4 feet 2 inches in height, and weighs one hundred pounds ...
  • Description anatomique des parties de la femme, qui servent à la generation; avec un Traité des monstres [by F. Licetus], de leur causes, de leur nature, & de leur differences : et une description anatomique, de la disposition surprenante de quelques parties externes & internes de deux enfans nés dan la ville de Gand, capitale de Flandres le 28 avril 1703 ... &c. &c / par Jean Palfyn ; Lesquels ouvrages on peut considerer comme une suite de l'Accouchement des femmes. Par Monsr. Mauriceau.
  • A child born with the viscera reversed. Engraving, 1749.
  • The Siamese twins.
  • Roddy Rodgers, a man without arms. Etching by J. Basire.
  • Wonderful phenomena of nature : a female child, (a twin,) 11 years of age, 4 feet 2 inches in height, and weighs one hundred pounds ...
  • Master Vine, a child with deformed arms. Etching.
  • The skeleton of conjoined twins joined at the thorax. Drawing in mixed media.
  • A child with a tail: side and posterior view. Reproduction of a photograph.
  • The skeleton of conjoined twins joined at the thorax. Drawing in mixed media.
  • [Newspaper cutting (Morning Post, 21 April 1934) about Signora Monera, the "Electric Woman" from Trieste whose body emits a luminous glow].
  • [Illustrated leaflet (1874?) advertising appearances by Master Smith, The Yorkshire Giant Youth].
  • A child with a tail. Reproduction of a photograph, 1925.