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.

Samuel Lover

3 pages in this part of Museum of Wonders.

Samuel Lover (Trial of Anne Hutchinson)

N the early history of stern Puritan New England, woman does not play a very conspicuous part.

Samuel Lover

The Nymph Complaining for the Death of T Her Fawn.

Samuel Lover (Odd Stories of Animals)

MISSISSIPPIAN has a cat of which he tells the following story: "I was sick a short time ago and the cat would come from the table to the…

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