63 results filtered with: Curiosities and wonders
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Chymia curiosa variis, non solum ex regno vegetabili, sed etiam ex minerali et animali, experimentis adornata.
Date: 1687- Books
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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]- Books
P.T. Barnum : the legend and the man / A.H. Saxon.
Saxon, A. H.Date: [1989], ©1989- Books
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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]- Books
The surprizing miracles of nature and art, in two parts / [R. B].
R. B., approximately 1632-approximately 1725.Date: 1685- Books
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The wonders of the universe : a record of things wonderful and marvelous in nature, science, and art / introduction by Charles Barnard.
Date: [1885], ©1885- Books
Mysterious realms : probing paranormal, historical, and forensic enigmas / Joe Nickell with John F. Fischer.
Nickell, Joe.Date: 1992- Books
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Memorable accidents and unheard-of transactions: containing an account of several strange events; as, the deposing of tyrants, lamentable shipwrecks, dismal misfortunes, strategems of war, perilous adventures, happy deliverances, with other remarkable occurrences and selec historical events, which have happened in several countries in the last age. Translated from the French, and published in English by R.B.
Léonard, T.Date: MDCCLXXIX. [1779]- Books
Stranger than fiction : essays / by Mike Jay.
Jay, Mike, 1959 December 14-Date: 2018- Books
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A brief collection of many rare secrets : many of which are approved and physical and the rest most pleasant and recreative : very necessary for all sorts of people / newly set forth and published by La Fountain, an expert operator.
La Fountaine.Date: 1650- Books
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Museum Britannicum, being an exhibition of a great variety of antiquities and natural curiosities, belonging to that noble and magnificent cabinet, the British Museum. Illustrated with curious prints, engraved after the original designs, from nature, other objects; and wit distinct explanations of each figure, by John and Andrew van Rymsdyk, pictors.
Rymsdyk, Jan van, active 1750-1788.Date: 1778- Books
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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. The second edition. ...
Date: MDCCLXVIII. [1768]- Books
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Museum, head of the Mall, Boston, is opened every day, and Tuesday, Thursday & Friday evenings. With music on a large concert organ. Containing the following wax-figures, paintings, curiosities, &c.
Columbian Museum (Boston, Mass.)Date: 1799]