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.

The Monsters of the Deef

2 pages in this part of Museum of Wonders.

The Monsters of the Deef

00 (349) Sphinx devoured of those who have at- were thirty feet in length, and so thi tempted to divine its enigmas, to pierce that a man…

The Monsters of the Deef: Alecto

KRINGLON December, 1861, said Berthelot, the steam computed at about 4,400 pounds. Its despatch-boat Alecto, commanded by fins, situated at…

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