Museum of Wonders, or Curiosities of the World

A cabinet of curiosities in book form, 1890: monsters of the ancient world, wild animals, queer wanderers in the vasty deep, famous inventions and sublime scenery — assembled to astonish the young and, the preface admits, their elders too.

I Ist of Illustrations

4 pages in this part of Museum of Wonders.

I Ist of Illustrations

Beautiful World, Bonnet Monkeys, The Dead Chamois, The Wild Cat, 0 PAGE. 16 19 21 23 A Stampede on the Prairie, Desperate Battle between an…

I Ist of Illustrations: Elephants

Elephants Transporting Cannon, 67 69 71 73 75 77 Elephants Laying Timbers, Our Little German Band, Performing Elephants 。 Celebrated Dog of…

I Ist of Illustrations: India

Start of a Sledge Expedition, The Walrus of the Arctic Seas, • • • Cutting Docks in the Ice, Fierce Attack upon a Chamois, Swiss Mountains…

I Ist of Illustrations: Boats

Boats and Boatmen of the Ganges, India, Crocodiles of the Ganges, Curious Hindoo Idol, India, .

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