63 results filtered with: Curiosities and wonders
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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.
R. B., approximately 1632-approximately 1725.Date: 1704- Books
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.
Buckland, Francis T. (Francis Trevelyan), 1826-1880.Date: 1882-1883
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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- Books
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].
Estienne, Henri, 1531-1598.Date: 1608- Books
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Memorable accidents, and unheard of transactions, containing an account of several strange events: as the disposing of tyrants, lamentable shipwrecks, Dismal Misfortunes, Stratagems of War, Perilous Adventures, Happy Deliverances, with other remarkable occurrences, and Select Historical Events, which have happened in several Countries in this last Age. Translated from the French, printed at Brussels in 1691, and Dedicated to His present Majesty William King of England, &c. Published in English by R. B.
Léonard, T.Date: 1733- Books
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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 world of wonders : a record of things wonderful in nature, science, and art.
Date: 1883-1884- Books
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.Date: 1855- 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
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.Date: [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- Books
The secret museum / Molly Oldfield.
Oldfield, Molly.Date: 2013- Books
Questions & answers : hundreds of intriguing facts about the world around you / edited by Robert Matthews & Nick Smith.
Date: 2001
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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- Books
Curiosity = Curiositeit / Willem J. Mulder, Ludo Hellemans, Piet 't Hart ; fotografie, Rosamond Purcell.
Mulder, Willem J.Date: [1996], ©1996
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Curiosities of natural history. First[-fourth] series / by Francis T. Buckland.
Buckland, Francis T. (Francis Trevelyan), 1826-1880.Date: 1890-1891- Journals
Fortean times.
Date: 1973-
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Curiosities of olden times / by S. Baring-Gould.
Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine), 1834-1924.Date: 1896- 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
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The world of wonders : a record of things wonderful in nature, science, and art.
Date: [1869?]- Books
Histoires prodigieuses : MS 136 Wellcome Library / Pierre Boaistuau ; sous la direction de Stephen Bamforth.
Boaistuau, Pierre, -1566.Date: 2000- Books
Prodigiorum ac ostentorum chronicon, : quae praeter naturae ordinem, motum, et operationem, et in superioribus & his inferioribus mundi regionibus, ... / per Conradum Lycosthenem.
Lykosthenes, Konrad, 1518-1561.Date: Mense Augusto anno MDLVII [1557]- Books
Wonders, marvels, and monsters in early modern culture / edited by Peter G. Platt.
Date: [1999], ©1999