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Two remarkable and true histories, which hapned this present yeare, 1619 : The one relating how God most miraculously restored to health Elizabeth Goossens Taets, dwelling in the Long street neere St. Georges Church in Amers-ford by Vtrecht in the Low-countries, the 29. of August last, after fiue and twenty yeares great inabilitie and weaknesse of body. The other shewing how a maruellous deformed monster was found in the belly of a cow which was killed by Iohn Vandel malt-man of Amers-ford aforesaid, the first day of October last. 1619. Both which may serue to inuite vs to serious repentance and vnfained amendment of life, in this wicked and decaying age.
Date: 1620
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Extraordinary adventures, revolutions, and events. Being an account of divers stupendious [sic] accidents, strange deliverances, signal mutations in the fortunes of several famous men, and changes of government in many countries. With other observable passages in divers kingdoms, states and provinces throughout the world : enlivened with pictures, for their better illustration / by R.B.
Nathaniel CrouchDate: 1704
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Antidotum melancholiæ vel, Schola curiositatis : omnibus hypochondriacis & atrabili laborantibus, sive fratribus spleneticis & melancholicis, vulgo denen Miltzbrüdern, aperta / a praenobili & expertissimo domino, Dn. Gaudioso von Fürvvitzhausen.
Date: 1670
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Curiosities of natural history / by Francis T. Buckland.
Francis Trevelyan BucklandDate: 1882-1883
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The vvhole body of cookery dissected, taught, and fully manifested, methodically, artificially, and according to the best tradition of the English, French, Italian, Dutch, &c. Or, A sympathy of all varieties in naturall compounds in that mysterie : Wherein is contained certain bills of fare for the seasons of the year, for feasts and common diets. Whereunto is annexed a second part of rare receipts of cookery: with certain useful traditions. With a book of preserving, conserving and candying, after the most exquisite and newest manner: delectable for ladies and gentlewomen.
William RabishaDate: 1673
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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]
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The wonders : lifting the curtain on the freak show, circus and Victorian age / John Woolf.
John WoolfDate: 2019
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Curiosities for the ingenious : selected from the most authentic treasures of nature, science and art, biography, history and general literature.
Date: 1822
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A world of wonders: or an introduction to a treatise touching the conformitie of ancient and modern wonders: or a preparative treatise to the apologie for Herodotus the argument whereof is taken from the Apologie for Herodotus / written in Latine by Henry Stephen, and continued here by the Author himselfe ; Translated out of the best corrected French copie [by R. Carew].
Henri EstienneDate: 1608
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A precious treasury of twenty rare secrets : most necessary, pleasant and profitable for all sorts of people / published by La Fountaine, an expert operator.
La Fountaine.Date: 1649
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The signs of the times: or Some expositions and remarks on sundry texts of Scripture, relative to the remarkable phenomenon, or dark-day, which appeared in New-England on the nineteenth of May, 1780 by which it appears that New-England is the place that the Prophet Joel calls Zion and Jerusalem. By Samuel Gatchel, deacon of the Second Congregational Church in Marblehead.
Gatchel, Samuel.Date: [1781]
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The world of wonders : a record of things wonderful in nature, science, and art.
Date: 1883-1884
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The occult sciences : the philosophy of magic, prodigies, and apparent miracles / from the French of Eusebe Salverte ; with notes illustrative, explanatory, and critical, by Anthony Todd Thomson.
Salverte, Eusèbe, 1771-1839. Des sciences occultes. EnglishDate: 1855
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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
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L'introduction au traite de la conformite des merueilles anciennes avec les modernes. Ou, traite preparatif à l'Apologie pour Herodote. L'argument est pris de l'Apologie pour Herodote / composee en latin par Henri Estiene, et est ici continué par luy mesme.
Estienne, Henri, 1531-1598. Apologia pro Herodoto. FrenchDate: [1582]
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A very large and ornate wine barrel, the Heidelberg Tun, being admired by fashionable visitors. Engraving, c. 1700.
Date: 1700Reference: 25736i
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The gallery of nature and art; or, a tour through creation and science. Comprising new and entertaining descriptions of the most surprising volcanoes, caverns, cataracts, whirlpools, waterfalls, earthquakes, and other wonderful and stupendous phenomena of nature. Forming a rich and comprehensive view of all that is interesting and curious in every part of the habitable world. By the Rev. E. Polehampton, and John M. Good, F.R.S. Illustrated by one hundred engravings / [Edward Thomas William Polehampton].
Polehampton, Edward (Edward Thomas William), 1777?-1830.Date: 1821
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The secret museum / Molly Oldfield.
Oldfield, MollyDate: 2013
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Bowen's Columbian Museum at the head of the Mall, Boston, is opened every day: and elegantly illuminated every Tuesday, Thursday, & Friday evening . Paintings. ... Figures of wax-work (large as life.) ... With a large collection of natural & artificial curiosities ..
Columbian Museum (Boston, Mass.)Date: [1798]
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The wonders of nature and art being an account of whatever is most curious and remarkable throughout the world; Whether relating to its Animals, Vegetables, Minerals, Volcanoes, Cataracts, Hot and Cold Springs, and Other Parts of Natural History; or, to the Buildings, Manufactures, Inventions, and Discoveries of its Inhabitants. The whole collected from the writings of the best historians, Travellers, Geographers, and Philosophers, among which are some Original Manuscripts; interspersed with pious Observations and Reflections; illustrated with Notes, and adorned with Copper-Plates. The second edition.
Date: MDCCLXVIII. [1768]
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Questions & answers : hundreds of intriguing facts about the world around you / edited by Robert Matthews & Nick Smith.
Date: 2001
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The whole body of cookery dissected, taught, and fully manifested, methodically, artificially, and according to the best tradition of the English, French, Italian, Dutch, &c. Or, A sympathy of all varieties in naturall compounds in that mystery : Wherein is contained certain bills of fare for the seasons of the year, for feasts and common diets. Whereunto is annexed a second part of rare receipts of cookery: with certain useful traditions. With a book of preserving, conserving and candying, after the most exquisite and newest manner: delectable for ladies and gentlewomen.
William RabishaDate: 1682
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Museum, head of the Mall, Boston, is opened every day, and Tuesday, Thursday & Friday evenings. With music on a large concert organ . Containing the following wax-figures, paintings, curiosities, &c.
Columbian Museum (Boston, Mass.)Date: 1799]
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Boer War: some African people demonstrate their wares to staff and patients from a military hospital, South Africa. Halftone after J. Waugh, 1900.
Waugh, J. J.Date: 1900Reference: 23527i
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Curiosity = Curiositeit / Willem J. Mulder, Ludo Hellemans, Piet 't Hart ; fotografie, Rosamond Purcell.
Mulder, Willem J.Date: [1996]

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Antidotum melancholiæ vel, Schola curiositatis : omnibus hypochondriacis & atrabili laborantibus, sive fratribus spleneticis & melancholicis, vulgo denen Miltzbrüdern, aperta / a praenobili & expertissimo domino, Dn. Gaudioso von Fürvvitzhausen.

Curiosities of natural history / by Francis T. Buckland.

The wonders : lifting the curtain on the freak show, circus and Victorian age / John Woolf.

Curiosities for the ingenious : selected from the most authentic treasures of nature, science and art, biography, history and general literature.

A precious treasury of twenty rare secrets : most necessary, pleasant and profitable for all sorts of people / published by La Fountaine, an expert operator.

The world of wonders : a record of things wonderful in nature, science, and art.

The occult sciences : the philosophy of magic, prodigies, and apparent miracles / from the French of Eusebe Salverte ; with notes illustrative, explanatory, and critical, by Anthony Todd Thomson.

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.

L'introduction au traite de la conformite des merueilles anciennes avec les modernes. Ou, traite preparatif à l'Apologie pour Herodote. L'argument est pris de l'Apologie pour Herodote / composee en latin par Henri Estiene, et est ici continué par luy mesme.

A very large and ornate wine barrel, the Heidelberg Tun, being admired by fashionable visitors. Engraving, c. 1700.

The secret museum / Molly Oldfield.

Bowen's Columbian Museum at the head of the Mall, Boston, is opened every day: and elegantly illuminated every Tuesday, Thursday, & Friday evening . Paintings. ... Figures of wax-work (large as life.) ... With a large collection of natural & artificial curiosities ..

Questions & answers : hundreds of intriguing facts about the world around you / edited by Robert Matthews & Nick Smith.

Museum, head of the Mall, Boston, is opened every day, and Tuesday, Thursday & Friday evenings. With music on a large concert organ . Containing the following wax-figures, paintings, curiosities, &c.

Boer War: some African people demonstrate their wares to staff and patients from a military hospital, South Africa. Halftone after J. Waugh, 1900.

Curiosity = Curiositeit / Willem J. Mulder, Ludo Hellemans, Piet 't Hart ; fotografie, Rosamond Purcell.