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Human curiosities and the Royal Society, 1699-1751 / John H. Appleby.
Appleby, John H.Date: 1996- Books
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Biographical curiosities; or, various pictures of human nature. Containing original and authentick memoirs of Daniel Dancer, Esq. An Extraordinary Miser. &c. &c.
Date: 1797- Books
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The book of days : a miscellany of popular antiquities in connection with the calendar, including anecdote, biography, & history, curiosities of literature and oddities of human life and character / edited by R. Chambers.
Date: 1863- Books
The anatomy of human bodies. Comprehending the most modern discoveries and curiosities in that art. To which is added a particular treatise of the small-pox and measles. Together with several practical observations and experienced cures. With 139 figures curiously cut in copper, representing the several parts and operations. Written in Latin by Isbrand de Diemerbroeck ... Translated from the last and most correct and full edition of the same / by William Salmon.
Diemerbroeck, Ysbrand van, 1609-1674.Date: 1694- Books
The mystery of the exploding teeth : and other curiosities from the history of medicine / Thomas Morris.
Morris, Thomas (Thomas Neil Gareth)Date: 2018- Books
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The anatomy of human bodies, comprehending the most modern discoveries and curiosities in that art : to which is added a particular treatise of the small-pox & measles : together with several practical observations and experienced cures ... / written in Latin by Ijsbrand de Diemerbroeck ... ; translated from the last and most correct and full edition of the same, by William Salmon.
Diemerbroeck, Ysbrand van, 1609-1674Date: 1694- Books
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The anatomy of human bodies : comprehending the most modern discoveries and curiosities in that art : to which is added a particular treatise of the small-pox and measles : together with several practical observations and experienc'd cures / written in Latin by Isbrand de Diemerbroeck ... ; translated from the last and most correct and full edition of the same by William Salmon.
Diemerbroeck, Ysbrand van, 1609-1674Date: 1689- Books
The erotikon : being an illustrated treasury of scientific marvels of human sexuality / translated from the French by Robert Meadows.
Cabanès, Augustin, 1862-1928.Date: [1966], ©1966- Books
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A strange and lamentable accident that happened lately at Mears-Ashby in Northamptonshire, 1642 : of one Mary Wilmore, wife to Iohn Wilmore rough mason who was delivered of a childe without a head and credibly reported to have a firme crosse on the brest, as this ensuing story shall relate.
Locke, John, ClericDate: 1642- Books
Some human oddities : studies in the queer, the uncanny and the fanatical / [Eric John Dingwall].
Dingwall, Eric John.Date: 1947- Pictures
Racial types and people with physical abnormalities exhibited at S. Watson's American Museum of Living Curiosities. Colour lithograph.
Date: [1885?])Reference: 38989i- Books
Why? : what makes us curious / Mario Livio.
Livio, Mario, 1945-Date: 2017- Videos
World in a box.
Date: 2003- Books
The medical almanac : a calendar of dates of significance to the profession of medicine, including fascinating illustrations, medical milestones, dates of birth and death of notable physicians, brief biographical sketches, quotations, and assorted medical curiosities and trivia / Pasquale Accardo.
Accardo, Pasquale J.Date: [1992], ©1992- Books
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The history of man; or, the wonders of humane nature, in relation to the virtues, vices and defects of both sexes / With examples antient and modern. The whole work being intermixt with variety of useful and divertive relations, never before publish'd.
Date: 1704- Books
Curious : the desire to know and why your future depends on it / Ian Leslie.
Leslie, Ian, 1972-Date: [2014]- Pictures
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In the museum of the quack doctor, the viscount Squanderfield holds out a small pill-box as a girl dabs her face with a handkerchief. Coloured aquatint after William Hogarth.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Reference: 38359i- Pictures
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In the cabinet of the quack doctor, the viscount Squanderfield holds out a small pill-box as a girl dabs her face with a handkerchief. Engraving by B. Baron after W. Hogarth, 1745.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Date: April 1st 1745Reference: 38353iPart of: Marriage a-la-mode- Books
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The history of man: or, the wonders of human nature, in relation to the virtues, vices, and defects, of both sexes. With examples, ancient and modern, alphabetically Digested under their proper Heads. The whole work being intermixed with variety of Useful and divertive Relations.
Wanley, Nathaniel, 1634-1680.Date: M,DCC,XCVI. [1796]- Books
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The history of man: or, the wonders of human nature, in relation to the virtues, vices, and defects of both sexes. With examples, ancient and modern, Alphabetically Digested under their Proper Heads. The whole work being intermixed With Variety of Useful and Divertive Relations.
Wanley, Nathaniel, 1634-1680.Date: M.DCC.XC. [1790]- Books
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The history of man: or, the wonders of human nature, in relation to the virtues, vices, and defects of both sexes: with examples, Ancient and Modern, Alphabetically Digested under their Proper Heads. The whole Work Being Intermixed With Variety of Useful and Divertive Relations. ...
Wanley, Nathaniel, 1634-1680.Date: 1791- Books
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A view of human nature: or, select histories; giving an account of persons who have been most eminently distinguish'd by their virtues or vices, their Perfections or Defects, either of Body or Mind; or who have been, in any Respect, remarkable Instances of Divine Providence. The Whole collected from the best Authors in various Languages, with the Addition of several curious Particulars never before publish'd; and digested under the following Heads, amongst many others, viz. Monstrous and preternatural Births. Giants and Dwarfs. Vast Strength of some Persons. Extraordinary Longevity. Persons who have return'd to Life after they have been supposed to be dead. Strange Discoveries of Murder. The Strength of Imagination. Great Memory. Loving Husbands and Wives. $$gent Parents, and dutiful children. Gratitude and Friendship. Singular Chastity. Uncommon Patience and Fortitude. Pride and Ambition. Great Eaters and Drinkers. Instance of Temperance and long Abstinence. Great Sleepers, and Walkers in their Sleep. Dreams, Presages, and Predictions. Magicians, Wizards, and Witches. Apparitions. Persons wonderfully preserv'd from Death. Horrid Imprecations, and Appeals to God, &c. &c. &c. With Miscellaneous Notes.
Date: MDCCL. [1750]- Books
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The history of man; or, the wonders of humane nature, in relation to the virtues, vices and defects of both sexes. With examples antient and modern, alphabetically digested under their proper heads. The whole work being intermixt with variety of useful and divertive relations, never before publish'd.
Wanley, Nathaniel, 1634-1680.Date: 1704- Ephemera
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Extraordinary natural curiosity : a living skeleton.
Date: [1825 and 1858]- Ephemera
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The cabinet of curiosities, or wonders of the world displayed. No.15, Wybrand Lolkes, the Dutch Dwarf.
Date: [between 1820 and 1860?]