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The wonderful magazine, and extraordinary museum : being a complete repository of the wonders, curiosities, and rarities of nature and art, comprehending a valuable collection ... of authentic and entertaining descriptions ... Memoirs of the most singular and remarkable persons of both sexes, in every walk of human life ... Forming altogether a new and most complete history of the extraordinaries and wonders of the world

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1808.
Call number: 190136
Creator: Loudon, Archibald (1754-1840)(Opens in new tab)
Dimensions: 24 cm
Associated people: Eames, Wilberforce, (1855-1937,)
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