1806 WANLEY WONDERS OF THE LITTLE WORLD PARANORMAL & WEIRD PEOPLE AND THINGS

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1806 WANLEY WONDERS OF THE LITTLE WORLD PARANORMAL & WEIRD PEOPLE AND THINGS:
$98.64

I have here forsale a weird book entitled THE WONDERS OF THE LITTLE WORLD or A GENERAL HISTORY OF MAN displaying the various faculties, capacities, powers and defects of the human body and mind, in many thousand most interesting relations of persons remarkable for bodily perfections or defects; collected from the writings of the most approved historians, philosophers, and physicians of all ages and countries, Forming a complete system of the mental and corporeal powers and defects of human nature; and intended to increase knowledge, to promote virtue, to discourage Vice, an dto furnish topics for innocent and ingenious conversation. By Nathaniel Wanley. A new edition with the addition of much new and curious matter, carefully selected from all attainable sources, and the whole revised and corrected by William Johnston, gent. Both volumes are contained in this one book. Published in 1806 by Richardson Otridge Faulder et al. There are two frontispieces and five further plates as called for. Its a bit like an eighteenth century Ripley\'s Believe it or Not.

403 and 553 pages. 23 cm by 14 cm. Quarter bound in brown leather on marbled hardboards, with five raised bands on the spine and a red and gilt title label. Front board is pulling and will soon be detached but no pages loose or missing,

Postagewill be Air Mail outside of UK. If you buy more than one item Iwill gladly combine the postage - this means it will be much cheaper for UK customers, and a bit cheaper for customers from outside of UK.