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Histoires prodigieuses (édition de 1561) : édition critique / Pierre Boaistuau ; introduction par Stephen Bamforth ; texte établi par Stephen Bamforth et annoté par Jean Céard.
Boaistuau, Pierre, -1566.Date: 2010- 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
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Abnormalities and curiosities of medicine : being an encyclopedic collection of rare and extraordinary cases ... / classified, annotated and indexed by George M. Gould and Walter L. Pyle.
Gould, George M. (George Milbry), 1848-1922.Date: 1898- Ephemera
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The cabinet of curiosities, or wonders of the world displayed. No.5, The Spotted Negro Boy.
Date: [between 1820 and 1860?]- Books
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Anomalies and curiosities of medicine : being an encyclopedic collection of rare and extraordinary cases, and of the most striking instances of abnormality in all branches of medicine and surgery derived from an exhaustive research of medical literature from its origin to the present day / abstracted, classified, annotated, and indexed by George M. Gould and Walter L. Pyle.
Gould, George M. (George Milbry), 1848-1922.Date: 1901, ©1896- Books
P.T. Barnum : the legend and the man / A.H. Saxon.
Saxon, A. H.Date: [1989], ©1989- Ephemera
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The English Tom Thumb : great natural curiosity.
Date: [1846]- Books
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Anomalies and curiosities of medicine : being an encyclopedic collection of rare and extraordinary cases, and of the most striking instances of abnormality in all branches of medicine and surgery, derived from an exhaustive research of medical literature from its origin to the present day / abstracted, classified, annotated, and indexed, by George M. Gould and Walter L. Pyle ; with 295 illustrations in the text, and 12 half-tone and colored plates.
Gould, George M. (George Milbry), 1848-1922.Date: 1897- Ephemera
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Wonderful production of nature : the greatest human curiosity! Now in existence, Master Thomas Jones, the Cambrian Porcupine Youth!! ... is now exhibiting, for a short time, at the Cosmorama Rooms, 209 Regent Street.
Date: [1841]- Books
Anomalies and curiosities of medicine : being an encyclopedic collection of rare and extraordinary cases, and of the most striking instances of abnormality in all branches of medicine and surgery, derived from an exhaustive research of medical literature from its origin to the present day, abstracted, classified, annotated, and indexed (1896) / by George M. Gould and Walter L. Pyle.
Gould, George M. (George Milbry), 1848-1922.Date: 1956- Books
Anthropology and antihumanism in Imperial Germany / by Andrew Zimmerman.
Zimmerman, Andrew.Date: 2001- Books
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The most strange and wounderfull apperation of blood in a poole at Garraton in Leicester-shire : which continued for the space of foure dayes, the rednesse of the colour for the space of those foure dayes every day increasing higher and higher, to the infinet amazement of many hundreds of beholders of all degrees and conditions, who have dipped their handketchers in this bloody poole, ... As also the true relation of a miraculous and prodigious birth in Shoo-lane, where one Mistris Browne a cuttlers wife was delivered of a monster without a head or feet, and in stead of a head had a hollow out of which a child did proceed, which was little but lovely, perfect in all but very spare and leane. As also the Kings sending to his Parliament for hostage for the security of his person to come unto London and to sit with his parliament for the composing the diffirences in the kingdome.
Date: [1645]- Pictures
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A child of ten years with a parasitic attachment on its back, Sagñay, Camarines Sur, the Philippines. Photograph by Martinez Studio, 1927.
Martinez Studio.Date: Agosto 24, 1927 [24 August 1927]Reference: 46786i- Books
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The history of man: displaying the various powers, faculties, capacities, virtues, vices, and defects of the human mind: As Exhibited In the Conduct, Sentiments, great Undertakings, Improvements, and Attainments, as well in the Arts Civil as Military, of the most Extra-Ordinary Genius's, in the different Ages and Nations of the World. Digested under proper heads. The whole interspers'd with moral reflections. And Calculated to increase Knowledge, to promote Virtue, to discourage Vice, and to furnish Topics for innocent and ingenious Conversation. Precepts may lead us, but Examples draw. In two volumes. ...
Date: MDCCXLVI. [1746]- Books
The Morbid Anatomy anthology / edited by Joanna Ebenstein and Colin Dickey.
Date: [2014]- Books
Performance and the medical body / edited by Alex Mermikides and Gianna Bouchard.
Date: 2016- Books
Curiosity is the key to discovery : the story of how Nobel laureates entered the world of science.
Date: [1992]- Ephemera
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S. Watson's Grand American Museum 28, Oxford Street : Living curiosities! From all parts of the world ...
Date: [1885]- Ephemera
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S. Watson's Grand American Museum 28, Oxford Street : Living curiosities! From all parts of the world ...
Date: [1885]- Books
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Anomalies and curiosities of medicine : being an encyclopedic collection of rare and extraordinary cases, and of the most striking instances of abnormality in all branches of medicine and surgery, derived from an exhaustive research of medical literature from its origin to the present day / abstracted, classified, annotated, and indexed, by George M. Gould and Walter L. Pyle ; with 295 illustrations in the text, and 12 half-tone and colored plates.
Gould, George M. (George Milbry), 1848-1922.Date: 1898, ©1896- Pictures
In a chamber containing stuffed animals, a globe and astrological devices Hudibras, about to draw his sword, startles Sidrophel and Whacum. Engraving by William Hogarth.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Date: [1768]Reference: 38141iPart of: Hudibras- Books
Exploring the cultural history of continental European freak shows and 'enfreakment' / edited by Anna Kérchy and Andrea Zittlau.
Date: 2012- Books
Stranger than fiction : essays / by Mike Jay.
Jay, Mike, 1959 December 14-Date: 2018- Books
The body collected : the raw materials of medical science from cadaver to DNA.
Date: 2016- Ephemera
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In Paris, at the theatre of M. Comte, in 1819, a female dwarf was exhibited ... : Though the surgeons removed to Lincoln's Inn Fields at the commencement of this century ... Hunter's Museum, formerly in Leicester Square, was purchased from his widow by the government for 15,000£ ...
Date: [Between 1840 and 1880?]