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Life and eccentricities of the late Dr. Monsey ... With curious anecdotes of persons of rank and consequence / [Messenger Monsey].
Monsey, Messenger, 1693 or 1694-1788?Date: 1804- Pictures
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Theodora de Verdion, an eccentric teacher of languages, a book seller and collector of medals. Engraving by G. Scott, 1803.
Date: 1 Feb[ruary] 1804Reference: 20927i- Books
An evaluation of an eccentric : Matthew Allen MD, chemical philosopher, phrenologist, pedagogue and mad-doctor, 1783-1845 /cPamela Faithfull.
Faithfull, Pamela.Date: 2001- Books
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The eccentricities of John Edwin, comedian. Collected from his manuscripts, and enriched with several hundred original anecdotes. Arranged and digested by Anthony Pasquin, Esq. ...
Edwin, John, 1749-1790.Date: 1791- Books
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The eccentricities of John Edwin, comedian. Collected from his manuscripts, and enriched with several hundred original anecdotes. Arranged and digested by Anthony Pasquin, Esq.
Edwin, John, 1749-1790.Date: [1795?]- Books
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The eccentricities of John Edwin, comedian. Collected from his manuscripts, and enriched with several hundred original anecdotes. Arranged and digested by Anthony Pasquin, Esq.
Edwin, John, 1749-1790.Date: [1795?]- Books
Otto Warburg : cell physiologist, biochemist, and eccentric / by Hans Krebs, in collaboration with Roswitha Schmid ; translated by Hans Krebs and Anne Martin.
Krebs, Hans Adolf, Sir.Date: 1981- Books
Collection of four hundred portraits of remarkable, eccentric and notorious personages printed from the original copper plates of Caulfield's Remarkable characters, Grainger, and Kirby's Wonderful museum.
Date: [1880?]- Books
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This day is published, ... A new work, entitled. Eccentric excursions through England and Wales, ... Embellished with upwards of one hundred humorous prints. By G. M. Woodward.
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.Date: [1799]- Books
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The eccentricities of John Edwin, comedian. Collected from his manuscripts, and enriched with several hundred original anecdotes. Arranged and digested by Anthony Pasquin, Esq. ...
Edwin, John, 1749-1790.Date: [1791?]- Books
Le texte à l'épreuve de la folie et de la litterature / Marc Décimo, Tanka G. Tremblay.
Décimo, MarcDate: [2016]- Books
Hartleyana : being some account of the life and opinions of Henry Robinson Hartley, scholar, naturalist, eccentric and founder of the University of Southampton / by Alexander Anderson.
Anderson, Alexander.Date: 1987- Books
The man who loved China : the fantastic story of the eccentric scientist who unlocked the mysteries of the Middle Kingdom / Simon Winchester.
Winchester, Simon.Date: [2008], ©2008- Pictures
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Richard Dickinson, an eccentric man from Scarborough, who imagines he is a king, sitting with his pet fox and monkey. Engraving by G. Vertue after H. Hysing, 1725.
Hysing, Hans, 1678-1752 or 1753.Date: 1725Reference: 20618i- Books
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The manners and customs of all nations; also, remarkable biographies, notable histories, eccentric sects, singular inventions, natural curiosities, mystical sciences, extraordinary buildings, wonderful animals, etc. Being a compendium of universal information ... / By the Rev. John Platts.
Platts, John, 1775-1837.Date: [1827]- Books
The wonders of the universe; or curiosities of nature and art: including memoirs and anecdotes of wonderful and eccentric characters of every age and nation from the earliest period to the present time.
Date: 1825- Books
The artificial kingdom : a treasury of the kitsch experience ; with remarkable objects of art and nature, extraordinary events, eccentric biography and original theory plus many wonderful illustrations by the author / Celeste Olalquiaga.
Olalquiaga, Celeste.Date: 1999, ©1998- Books
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Eccentric excursions or, literary & pictorial sketches of countenance, character & country, in different parts of England & South Wales. ... Embellished with upwards of one hundred characteristic & illustrative prints. By G. M. Woodward ...
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.Date: 1796 [1797]- Books
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An Address to the ladies and gentlemen of the city of Cork. Containing, a defence of the character, and a short sketch of the eccentric life of the original babe of fancy, Thomas Ferdinand O'rourke.
Date: 1794- Books
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Local records; or, historical register of remarkable events, which have occurred in Northumberland and Durham, Newcastle upon Tyne, and Berwick upon Tweed, from the earliest period of authentic record, to the present time; with biographical notices. Of deceased persons of talent, eccentricity, and longevity / By John Sykes.
Sykes, John, 1781 or 1782-1837.Date: 1833- Books
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The regal rambler; or, eccentrical adventures of the devil in London: with the manoeuvres of his ministers, towards the close of the eighteenth century. Translated from the Syriack MS. of Rabbi Solomon, recently found in the foundation of the Hebrew Synagogue.
Hastings, Thomas, approximately 1740-1801.Date: M.DCC.XCIII. [1793]- Books
A book of characters : impressions and portraits in writing of famous, infamous, remarkable, and eccentric men and women, with sidelights upon them at various stages of their singular careers / collected and edited for the entertainment and edification of the curious reader by Daniel George.
Date: 1959- Books
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The Midnight ambulator; or The nocturnal rambles, and hair-breadth escapes, &c. of the celebrated Don Lopez Devilshours. An eccentric character in the city of Madrid. Also containing a curious relation, by a lady to her husband, describing the dreadful malady of the night-mare, so prevalent in Spain.
Date: [1800?]- Books
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The horse's mouth, showing the age by the teeth : containing a full description of the periods when the teeth are cut the appearances they present the tricks to which they are exposed the eccentricities to which they are liable and the diseases to which they are subject / by Edward Mayhew.
Mayhew, Edward, 1813?-1868.Date: [between 1850 and 1859?]- Books
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Mysteries of medical life, or, Doctors and their doings : being a sketch of medical men generally, their manners, habits, virtues, vices, loves, hatreds, jealousies, eccentricities, successes, failures, vexations, and disappointments : with a description of their treatment and ill-treatment by the pill-taking public / by George Allarton.
Allarton, George.Date: 1856