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A hombros de gigantes : estudios sobre la primera revolución científica / Alberto Elena.
Elena, Alberto, 1958-Date: [1989], ©1989- Ephemera
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Royal Aquarium : the original Chang, Brustad, the Norwegian giant, the Chinese Tom Thumb, Wieland's living curiosities : admission one shilling.
Date: [1880?]- Books
Bronconeumonectasias congénitas : quistes aéreos y ampollas gigantes de enfisema / Oscar P. Aguilar, Juan Queirel.
Aguilar, Oscar P. (Oscar Pedro), 1894-Date: 1948- Ephemera
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[Folded leaflet about "the life and adventures of the gigantic family" of Queen's County, Ireland. Ann O'Neal is the eldest daughter (also known as Ann O'Neill in other publications). "Gigantic" appears to mean very fat].
Date: [between 1870 and 1873?]- Pictures
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A young man chances on a gigantic yellow frog. Drawing attributed to Edwin Harcourt Burrage, 18--.
Burrage, E. Harcourt (Edwin Harcourt)Date: 1800-1899Reference: 572963i- Pictures
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Geography: a gigantic iceberg at sea, dwarfing a sailing ship. Coloured wood engraving by C. Whymper.
Whymper, Charles H., 1853-1941.Reference: 46566i- Ephemera
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South London Palace : Boxing night & every evening / Proprietors, E. Poole & H. Ulph, Jun.
Date: [1886?]- Pictures
A man imprisoned in strapwork and threatened by gigantic hostile birds. Engraving by C. Bos, ca. 1550.
Bosch, Cornelis, 1506 or 1510-approximately 1570.Date: 1550Reference: 2475320i- Pictures
A gigantic rat on top of a house: campaign against rats in Denmark. Colour lithograph after G., 194-(?).
Date: [between 1940 and 1949?]Reference: 825609i- Pictures
Malaria: a man sleeping comfortably under a mosquito net which a gigantic mosquito cannot penetrate. Colour lithograph, 1946.
Date: 1946Reference: 545737i- Pictures
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A gigantic human skull, representing death, spewing out poison in the form of warships armed with poison gas. Colour lithograph, 192-.
Date: [between 1920 and 1929]Reference: 640518i- Books
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Note on the existence of gigantic sea-anemones in the China Sea : containing within them quasi-parasitic fish / by C. Collingwood.
Collingwood, Cuthbert, 1826-1908.Date: 1868- Ephemera
Just arrived, and may be seen in the commodious rooms, 287, Strand : W.W. Westhead, the Manchester Gigantic Boy! Who was born on the 26th September, 1810 ...
Date: [1823]- Books
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Memoir on the megatherium, and other extinct gigantic quadrupeds of the coast of Georgia : with observations on its geologic features / by William B. Hodgson.
Hodgson, William Brown, 1800-1871.Date: 1846- Pictures
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A man rides a gigantic white serpent in a river, watched by a woman in an orange shawl. Gouache painting by an Indian artist, ca. 1850(?).
Date: 1850Reference: 582600i- Books
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Historia de vidua sareptana hospitio excipiente Heliam Prophetam, 3. Regum 17. Carmine Heroico descripta, et consecrata, Nobili et generoso heroi, Georgio Rosencrantz ..., autore Ioanne Gigante
Gigas, Johannes 1514-1581Date: 1591- Books
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Historia de vidua sareptana hospitio excipiente Heliam Prophetam, 3. Regum 17. Carmine Heroico descripta, et consecrata, Nobili et generoso heroi, Georgio Rosencrantz ..., autore Ioanne Gigante
Gigas, Johannes 1514-1581Date: 1591- Ephemera
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[Leaflet (27 December 1872?) advertising an appearance of "the gigantic mother and daughter" of Queen's County, Ireland. Ann O'Neill is the daughter (also known as Ann O'Neal in other publications) at Whiteley's Unrivalled Exhibition of Living Wonders (15 Tichborne Street, Haymarket, London). "Gigantic" appears to mean very fat. Also appearing is Mr. Jackson, the "smallest man in the world"].
Date: [between 1870 and 1873?]- Books
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L'arti per via / disegnate et offerte dal Sig. Gioseppe M.a Mittelli. Al grande et alto Nettuno Gigante, sig. della Piazza di Bologna ... / Fran.co Curti intagliò.
Moro, Giacopo.Date: [between 1660 and 1669?]- Books
L'arti per via, disegnate et offerte dal Sig. Gioseppe M.a Mittelli. Al grande et alto Nettuno Gigante, sig. della Piazza di Bologna ... / Fran.co Curti intagliò.
Curti, Francesco, 1610-1690.Date: [between 1660 and 1669?]- Pictures
Above, two people look at a colossal yellow arch; below, a kneeling woman works on a gigantic black mesh placed against a yellow ground. Watercolour by N. Goullet, 1956.
Goullet, Nancy, active approximately 1954-1957.Date: 3rd July '56 [3 July 1956]Reference: 2970721iPart of: Adamson Collection- Pictures
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An abnormally tall and an abnormally small man: the former about to light the latter's cigarette. Photograph, 1927.
Date: 1927Reference: 34310i- Pictures
An itinerant medicine vendor selling his wares as part of a performance on stage, at a gigantic travelling country fair known as the Fiera dell' Impruneta. Etching by J. Callot.
Callot, Jacques, 1592-1635.Reference: 20443i- Ephemera
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Just arrived, and may be seen in the commodious rooms, 287, Strand : W.W. Westhead, the Manchester Gigantic Boy! Who was born on the 26th September, 1810 ...
Date: [1823]- Books
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Description of the skeleton of an extinct gigantic sloth : Mylodon robutus, Owen, with observations on the osteology, natural affinities, and probable habits of the megatherioid quadrupeds in general / by Richard Owen.
Owen, Richard, 1804-1892.Date: 1842