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Libra Esoterica

Encyclopedia of natural and artificial wonders and curiosities including a full and authentic description of remarkable and astonishing places, beings, animals, customs, experiments, phenomena, etc., of both ancient and modern times, in all parts of the globe

comprising correct accounts of the most wonderful freaks of nature and arts of man

by John Platts

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source
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952 p., [7] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Cryptozoology and Forteana.

  • Cryptozoology and Forteana

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive and openlibrary-historical matched “Curiosities and wonders”. Retained metadata contains “Curiosities and wonders” in the subject metadata.

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comprising correct accounts of the most wonderful freaks of nature and arts of man

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1876New York :| World Pub. House; | World Pub. HouseEnglish—Public

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  • Contributing institution: Indiana University
  • Digitization sponsor: Indiana University
  • Discovery required Internet Archive search metadata to report a PDF format; the exact direct-file URL is added only after the item's file listing confirms an unrestricted PDF filename.
  • Scanner: scribe5.indiana.archive.org
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openlibrary-work:OL43191937W
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