Encyclopedias and dictionaries

The tongue of time, and star of the states

Joseph Comstock

1838

Mysteries of life, death, and futurity

John Timbs, Harry Houdini Collection DLC

1861

Parley's panorama; or, Curiosities of nature and art, history and biography

Samuel G. Goodrich, Samuel Samuel Griswold Goodrich

1861

Ten thousand wonderful things

Edmund Fillingham King

1860

A new universal history of the religious rites, ceremonies, and customs of the whole world, or, A complete and impartial view of all the religions in the various nations of the universe, both antient and modern, from the creation down to the present time

William Hurd

1780

Farrukh-nāmah-i Jamālī

Jamālī Yazdī, Abū Bakr Muṭahhar, active 1185, author

1201·Persian

Nuzhat-nāmah-yi ʻAlāʼī

'Ali ibn Maḥmūd, known as Ṣāyigh al-Shīrāzī al-Murshidī. transcriber, Shahmardān ibn Abī al-Khayr, active 11th century, author, Casey Casey Albert Wood, ʻAlāʼ al-Dawlah, of Tabaristan, honoree

1404·Persian

Risālah-i Takmīlī bar Nuzhat-nāmah-yi ʻAlāʼī

al-Kātib al-Baghdādī, Ibrāhīm b. 'Abd al-Jabbār, active 15th century, author

1404·Persian

A journey of discovery all around our house

Robert Kemp Philp

1867

Ten Thousand Wonderful Things: Comprising Whatever is Marvellous and Rare, Curious, Eccentric and Extraordinary in All Ages and Nations

1894

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology"

Various

Date unknown

The book of wonders

Rudolph Rudolph John Bodmer

Date unknown

Il libro di Sidrach: testo inedito del secolo XIV

active 13th century Sidrac, Adolfo Bartoli

Date unknown·Italian

Things not generally known, familiarly explained

John Timbs

1856

Dictionary of Taoist Internal Alchemy

Fabrizio Pregadio

2025·Chinese

Cryptozoology A to Z

Jerome Clark, Loren Coleman

1999

Etymologiae

Isidore of Seville

1470

The Scientific Library; Or, Repository of Useful and Polite Literature: Comprising Astronomy ..

Thomas Smith

1806

Officina Ioan Ravisii Textoris Nivernensis Nunc Demum Post Tot Editiones diligenter emendata, aucta, & in longè commodiorem ordinem redacta,Cui hac editione accesserunt...

Joannes Ravisius Textor

1520·Latin

The Interview: A Companion Volume to "Enquire Within Upon Everything"

Robert Kemp Philp

1857

A new family encyclopedia, or, Compendium of universal knowledge : comprehend ing a plain and practical view of those subjects most interesting to persons in the ordinary professions of life

Charles Augustus Goodrich

1833

Predictions realized in modern times

John Timbs

1862

The scientific library, or, Repository of useful and polite literature

Thomas Smith

1815

Dictionnaire des merveilles et curiosités de la nature et de l'art ...

Adolphe Chesnel de la Charbouclais

1853·French