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.

J. R. Jones

3 pages in this part of Museum of Wonders.

J. R. Jones

In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C. REFACE.

J. R. Jones: Polar

Thrilling scenes in the Polar World are also depicted. The story of those heroic adventures which have attended Polar exploration is one of…

J. R. Jones: India

The Most Wonderful Voyage on Record, Dangers of Alpine Climbing, On the Top of the Wetterhorn, Alpine Climbers Seeking Crystals, Exciting…

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