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  • 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 least man, woman and horse, that ever was seen together alive.
  • The tender mercies of Bonaparte in Egypt! : Britons beware / Robert Wilson, K.M.T., Lieutenant Colonel.
  • Theatre of anatomy, 37, Little Windmill Street, Golden Square : [fragment] / Mr. E.W. Tuson, F.L.S.
  • Theatre of anatomy, 37, Little Windmill Street, Golden Square : [fragment] / Mr. E.W. Tuson, F.L.S.
  • Observations on the comet.
  • An account of the comet of the year 1811.
  • Plain answers to plain questions, in a dialogue between John Bull and Bonaparte : met half-seas over between Dover and Calais.
  • Brucellosis : attested and eradication as at 18 August 1975 : programme to the end of 1977, eradicaton areas declared / [Prepared and drawn by Survey Section, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food].
  • Now exhibiting at 432, West Strand : an extraordinary living phenomenon of the female sex, thirty years old, and only four feet high, having a beard six inches in length, with whiskers and moustachios.
  • Médicamens composés et dragées confisqués : sentence du siege de la police du baillage de Rouen, qui condamne le nommé Le Marié, marchand mercier & parfumeur en cette ville, en dix livres d'amende envers le roi, et aux dépens, & les marchandises sur lui saisies déclarées confisquées au profit de l'Hôtel-Dieu, pour la contravention par lui commise aux statuts et réglemens des marchands apothicaires-epiciers-grossiers-ciriers-droguistes & confiseurs de la ville, fauxbourgs & banlieuë de Rouen : fait défenses audit le Marié & à tous autres de récidiver, sous plus grandes peines : du huitième jour de mai mil sept cent cinquante-six ... / signés, Varnier & Mathez.
  • M. DCC.LVIII. : Magistri, Jacobus-Benignus Winslow, Camillus Falconer, Franciscus Pousse ...
  • Percentage of herds participating in brucellosis eradication as at 30th June 1975 / [Prepared and drawn by Survey Section, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food].
  • Facts! Amazing facts! : Never exhibited in England, Mademoiselle Lefort, a first rate phenomen ...
  • Facts! Amazing facts! : Never exhibited in England, Mademoiselle Lefort, a first rate phenomen ...
  • Now exhibiting at 432, West Strand : an extraordinary living phenomenon of the female sex, thirty years old, and only four feet high, having a beard six inches in length, with whiskers and moustachios.
  • This is to acquaint the nobility, gentry and the curious in general : to be seen ... during the time of the fair, the surprising Italian Dwarf, two feet six inches high, 25 years of age, born without arms, legs, or thighs. Yet has feet and hands.
  • Wybrand Lolkes, the Dwarf.
  • A true relation of the late King's [i.e. Charles II's] death.
  • Execution of J. Frampton and Andrew Barton
  • In Paris, at the theatre of M. Comte, in 1819, a female dwarf was exhibited ... : Though the surgeons removed to Lincoln's Inn Fields at the commencement of this century ... Hunter's Museum, formerly in Leicester Square, was purchased from his widow by the government for 15,000£ ...
  • To the admirers of the wonderful production of nature, to be seen alive at no.99 Holborn Hill : a most astonishing creature, called the Ethiopian Satyr, or Real wild-man of the woods.
  • What to do about gas / issued by the Ministry of Home Security.
  • M. T. Miciano, Spanien : Internationale Konkursausschreibung der Liga der Roten Kreuze.
  • The popular diet for all young and immature stock : unequalled for quality and reasonable in price : as good for cattle as for sheep : Holland's Britannia lamb and calf food / F.E. Holland.
  • Third examination - December 2, 1943 : pharmacology and therapeutics, toxicology, pharmacy / Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons ; examiners: R.A.S. Coulter, W.J. Ironside.
  • Died, on Sunday last, Mrs. Cox, of 38, Red Lion Street, Clerkenwell, of dropsy : she is supposed to have been the heaviiest woman in London, weighing, at the time of her death, not less than 18 stone ... 13 June, 1830.
  • Tableaux interrogatifs, ou Nouvelle méthode d'enseigner l'art des accouchemens [sic] aux sages-femmes de la campagne. 3e. tableau, Des parties molles qui ont rapport au bassin / École départementale de l'Ain.
  • Mr. J. Wharton : when only 13 years of age, he weighed eighteen stone, and continued to increase in weight a stone each year, till he was thirty years old ... he died November, 1810, at Appleby Carside, Lincoln, at the age of 34.
  • Annual meeting at St. James' Banqueting Room, Regent Street, London, W. (ten doors above Swan and Edgar's) on Thursday, April 28th, at 3 p.m. ...