Now THIS is an interesting-looking book! Just too rich for my blood!
Description:
NEW WONDERFUL MAGAZINE
OR
MARVELOUS CHRONICLE
Containing authentic accounts of all the most wonderful productions and
surprising events that have ever happened in nature and art, from the
creation of the world to the present eventful period.
Being a miscellaneous collection of the most: remarkable relations,
surprising narratives, wonderful occurences, singular events, whimsical
tales, striking anecdotes, miraculous escapes, heroic adventures, odd
sayings, supernatural visions,
unaccountable appearances, absurd characters, memorable exploits, amazing
deliverances from death and other dangers, amusing histories, strange
accidents,
extraordinary memoirs, unaccountable accidents, absurd and ridiculous
customs. Uncommon instances of : courage, strength, longevity.
Persons famous for: eating, drinking, fasting, walking, sleeping.
Strange effects of imagination in pregnant women.
and whatever else is calculated to promote mirth, or to excite astonishment.
Amazing revolutions, &c &c, in the wonderful phenomena of nature and art,
ancient and modern, including among the greatest variety of valuable matters
in the line of literature,
Memoirs and portraits of the most remarkable person from the reign of K.
Henry VIII to the glorious revolution under King William III
The whole carefully collected from the most approved and celebrated,
historians, travelers, philosophers and physicians of every age and country.
The whole embellished with most striking copper-plates
London printed for the proprietors
BY
W. TAYLOR
Sold by Symonds, Hogg, Parsons, &c &c in Paternoster row, and may be had of
all booksellers, and newsmen, in England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland.
1794
THAT WAS JUST THE TITLE
Absolutely enthralling reading with well over 200 accounts etc. in 396
pages.
SOME OF THE CONTENTS:
A story of a young lady first buried and afterwards married. A
n accurate account of second sighted men in Scotland.
A child natured by a wolf.
A account of Mr Edward Bright, the fat man at Malden in Essex.
An account of giants or such as have exceeded the common proportion in
stature and height.
A most defence of swearing "written by a man of fashion".
Curious particulars of Peter the wild boy.
Natural history of the pohon-upas or poison tree of the Island of Java.
An account of the very tall men called Patagonians.
A story of a sword swallower.
The list is endless plus 14 full page copper plate engravings and 1 large
fold out plate.
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Really nice engravings. Note that this book from 1894 apparently contains
true accounts of the remains of or encounters with giants.
--Mike