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Curiosities & wonders

Curiosities for the ingenious, selected from the most authentic treasures of nature, science and art

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Antiquarian books of Scotland > Curiosities & wonders > Curiosities for the ingenious, selected from the most authentic treasures of nature, science and art > (43)

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Permanent URL	https://digital.nls.uk/122453313

Curiosities for the ingenious, selected from the most authentic treasures of nature, science and art
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Shelfmark	ABS.1.81.255
Additional NLS resources:	Library catalogue record
Attribution and copyright:	Public Domain - This work is free of known copyright restrictions. For details visit our copyright page. https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

Form / genre:	Written and printed matter > Books
Dates / events:	1821 [Date published]
Places:	Europe > United Kingdom > England > Greater London > London (inhabited place) [Place published]
Subject / content:	Curiosities & wonders
Person / organisation:	Boys, Thomas [Publisher] Gye and Balne [Printer]
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Antiquarian books of Scotland
Description	Thousands of printed books from the Antiquarian Books of Scotland collection which dates from 1641 to the 1980s. The collection consists of 14,800 books which were published in Scotland or have a Scottish connection, e.g. through the author, printer or owner. Subjects covered include sport, education, diseases, adventure, occupations, Jacobites, politics and religion. Among the 29 languages represented are English, Gaelic, Italian, French, Russian and Swedish.