Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Kirby's wonderful and eccentric museum or, : Magazine of remarkable characters. Including all the curiosities of nature and art, from the remotest period to the present time, drawn from every authentic source. Illustrated with numerous engravings. Chiefly taken from rare and curious prints or original drawings.

Accession number
PML 8695-700
Published
London : R.S. Kirby, 1820.
Credit line
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes
For the most part a reissue with new title pages, of "Kirby's wonderful and scientific museum," later "Kirby's wonderful and eccentric museum." which was published at London from 1803 to 1820. Cf. Brit. mus. Catalogue.
T.p. of vol. 2 reads: Illustrated with one hundred and twenty-four engravings ... ; vol. 6: Illustrated with elegant engravings.
Description
6 v. : ill., fronts., plates, ports. ; 23 cm
Provenance
From the Theodore Irwin collection.
Binding
3/4 black morocco.
Classification
Department