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Remaking Eden : cloning, genetic engineering, and the future of humankind? / Lee M. Silver.
Silver, Lee M.Date: 1999- Pictures
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Three giants, the tallest identified as Charles Byrne and the others as twins, and six spectators including an unidentified lady and dwarf. Etching by J. Kay, 1784, after himself.
Kay, John, 1742-1826.Date: 1784Reference: 2289i- Books
On the shoulders of giants : a Shandean postscript / Robert K. Merton ; with an afterword by Denis Donoghue and a preface by the author.
Merton, Robert King, 1910-2003.Date: [1985], ©1985- Digital Images
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Show Bill. Attractions at the Middlesex Music Hall 'Mogul Tavern' 167, Drury Lane on Monday 6 December 1886 includes 'Pat O'Brien, the great Irish Giant and his wife, the renowed German giants.
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Yosemite National Park, California: the giant sequoia tree known as the 'grizzly giant'. Photograph, ca. 1880.
Date: 1880Reference: 571384iPart of: United States of America: landscapes, architecture and portraits. Photographs (some by Francis Frith), ca. 1880.- Books
In our hearts we were giants : the remarkable story of the Lilliput Troupe : a dwarf family's survival of the Holocaust / Yehuda Koren and Eilat Negev.
Koren, Yehuda (Writer in English)Date: 2004- Books
Gulliver in the land of giants : a critical biography and the memoirs of the celebrated dwarf Joseph Boruwłaski / Anna Grześkowiak-Krwawicz ; translated by Daniel Sax.
Grześkowiak-Krwawicz, Anna.Date: [2012], ©2012- Books
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Dialogue between the two giants at Guildhall, humbly addressed to John Wilkes, Esq; to which is [a]dded, a versification of two of Mr. W----'s election pieces.
Date: MDCCLXVIII. [1768]- Ephemera
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[Undated handbill (August 1880?) advertising appearances at the Royal Aquarium, London by Chang, the vast Mongolian, accompanied by Henrik Brustad, the huge Norwegian, the Chinese Tom Thumb, the midget Adonis, the Anakites (giants) and midgets. Printed on yellow paper].
Date: 1880- Books
Victorian giants : the birth of art photography : Julia Margaret Cameron, Lewis Carroll, Clementina Hawarden, Oscar Rejlander / Phillip Prodger; with a forward by HRH the Duchess of Cambridge.
Prodger, PhillipDate: [2018]- Ephemera
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[Undated handbill (August 1880?) advertising appearances at the Royal Aquarium, London by Chang, the vast Mongolian, accompanied by Henrik Brustad, the huge Norwegian, the Chinese Tom Thumb, the midget Adonis, the Anakites (giants) and midgets. Printed on off-white paper].
Date: 1880- Pictures
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Sir Robert Walpole as Jack in 'Jack and the beanstalk'; representing his domination by the giants Spain and potentially France in the 'War of Jenkin's Ear'. Engraving by C Mosley, 1739.
Mosley, Charles, approximately 1720-approximately 1770.Date: 1739Reference: 576199i- Books
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The war of the giants, by an admirer of Thomas Sternhold and John Hopkins. To which is added, a dialogue between John Bull and one of his friends. With notes.
Admirer of Thomas Sternhold and John Hopkins.Date: [1797]- Books
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A true relation of a mighty giant named Theutobocus, sometimes king of the Theutons and Cimbrians, overthrown by Consul Marius 1700 yeares agone : buried then by the castle of Langon, neere the towne of Romans in the prouince of Daufiné in Fraunce, whole bones were found of by chaunce, an. 1613, in a place called to this day, The Giants Ground, and vpon his tombe ingrauen in old letters Theutobocus Rex.
Tissot, Jacques.Date: 1615- Pictures
A giant child. Engraving, 1805.
Date: 1 March 1805Reference: 2951i- Pictures
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Amanab, a giant. Reproduction of wood engraving.
Reference: 133i- Books
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Tom Thumb's folio; or, a new penny play-thing for little giants. To which is prefixed, an abstract of the life of Mr. Thumb, And An Historical Account of the Wonderful Deeds he performed. Together with Some Anecdotes respecting Grumbo the Great Giant.
Date: 1786- Books
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Tom Thumb's folio: or, A new threepenny plaything for little giants. To which is prefixed, an abstract of the life of Mr. Thumb, and an historical account of the wonderful deeds he performed. Together with some anecdotes respecting Grumbo, the great giant.
Date: 1791- Books
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The History of the life and death of the Most Noble Knight Sir Bevis, of Southampton. Containing his acts of chivalry in various battles, and in slaying giants, monsters, wild beasts, &c.
Date: [1750?]- Books
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The history of the life and death of that most noble knight Sir Bevis, of Southampton. Containing, His Acts of Chivalry in various Battles, and in flaying Giants, Monsters, Wild Beasts, &c.
Date: [1750?]- Pictures
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Basilio Huaylas, a giant. Line engraving, 1815.
Date: 15 March 1815Reference: 342i- Pictures
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Thomas Bell, a giant. Line engraving, 1813.
Date: 4 May 1813Reference: 154i- Books
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The History of good lady Kindheart, of hospitable-hall, Near the village of Allgood, and the wicked tinker. To which is addd [sic], the story of the giants and the little dwarf Mignon.
Date: [between 1790 and 1800?]- Pictures
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Colonel Chang, a giant, and General Mite, a midget. Lithograph.
Reference: 38991i- Pictures
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Basilio Huaylas, a giant. Coloured stipple engraving, 1805.
Date: 1 February 1805Reference: 341i