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Anthropometamorphosis: man transform'd: or, the artificall changling historically presented, in the mad and cruell gallantry, foolish bravery, ridiculous beauty, filthy finenesse, and loathsome loveliness of most nations, fashioning and altering their bodies from the mold intended by nature; with figures of those transfigurations. To which artificiall and affected deformations are added, all the native and nationall monstrosities that have appeared to disfigure the humane fabrick. With a vindication of the regular beauty and honesty of nature. And an appendix of the pedigree of the English gallant / Scripsit J. B. Cognomento Chirosophus. M.D.

J. B. (John Bulwer), 1606-1656.

London : Printed by William Hunt, 1653.

PML 150958

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An almanack for the year of Christian account 1698, but by Bishop Usher's account 1702, by the account of others 1700 : being the second after bessextile or leap-year, and from the creation of the world 5665, but by Dove's computation 5702 : containing a general ephemerides of the planets motions, with many other matters useful & necessary : chiefly accomodated to the latitude of 40 degrees north and longitude of about 73 degr. west from London, but may without sensible error serve the adjacent places even from Newfound-land to the Capes of Virginia / by Daniel Leeds.

Leeds, Daniel, 1652-1720.

New-York : Printed and sold by William Bradford at the Bible, 1698.

PML 6168

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The copie of a letter to the Right Honourable the Earle of Leycester, Lieutenant generall of all her Maiesties forces in the united Prouinces of the lowe countreys, written before, but deliuered at his returne from thence : with a report of certeine petitions and declarations made to the Qveenes Maiestie at two seuerall times, from all the Lordes and Commons lately assembled in Parliament : and her Maiesties answeres thereunto by her selfe deliuered, though not expressed by the reporter with such grace and life, as the same were vttered by her Maiestie.

Crompton, Richard, active 1573-1599.

London : Christopher Barker, 1586.

PML 3253

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Under the immediate patronage of Her Most Gracious Majesty ... Wombwell's mammoth zoological no. 1 menagerie, the largest in the world : Sevenoaks, during the fair ... Performing male elephant ... Lion & lioness! ... The monster Bengal tiger! ... Senegal leopardess ... Great Arctic monsters; or polar bears. Striped or untameable hyaenas! ... Highly trained group of 13 performing leopards! ... Mrs. Wombwell ... begs to assure her patrons, that her agents, whom she has appointed in every seaport, are constantly sending fresh novelties, so as to render it in every respect unique and replete.

Manchester : John Port, Riding Court, St. Mary's Gate, [186-?]

PML 146639, p. 492 (following)

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Jacob Christian Schäffers Doctors der Gottesgelehrsamkeit und Weltweisheit ... Versuche und Muster ohne alle Lumpen oder doch mit einem geringen Zusatze derselben Papier zu machen.

Schäffer, Jacob Christian, 1718-1790.

Regensburg : [s.n.], 1765.

PML 129707

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Job's Wife and Judith and Holofernes

Peter Paul Rubens

1577-1640

ca. 1595

1984.46

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Collected engravings of flowers.

Monnoyer, Jean Baptiste, approximately 1636-1699.

Paris : N de Poilly, [1660-1690?]

PML 49011

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A history of British birds / the figures engraved on wood by T. Bewick.

Bewick, Thomas, 1753-1828.

Newcastle : Printed by Edward Walker, for T. Bewick : Sold by him, and Longman and Rees, London, 1805.

PML 9921-22

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Good little girl's book : The good-natured little girl, the thoughtless, the vain, the orderly, the slovenly, the snappish, the persevering, the forward, the modest, and, the awkward little girl / Edited by Mrs. S. J. Hale. ; embellished with eight engravings.

Corner, Miss (Julia), 1798-1875.

New-York : Published by Edward Dunigan, 151 Fulton Street, [between 1843 and 1848]

PML 80976

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The wreck of the Golden Mary : being the Captain's account of the loss of the ship, and the mate's account of the great deliverance of her people in an open boat at sea. The extra Christmas number of Household words / conducted by Charles Dickens.

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870, editor.

London : Published at the Office, No. 16, Wellington Street North, Strand, 1856.

PML 6632.7

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