KIRBY'S WONDERFUL AND ECCENTRIC MUSEUM; OR, MAGAZINE OF REMARKABLE CHARACTERS. INCLUDING ALL THE CURIOSITIES OF NATURE AND ART, FROM THE REMOTEST PERIOD TO THE PRESENT TIME.

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FIVE VOLUMES UNIFORMLY BOUND. Marbled boards and endpapers. Gilt-panelled spine with red and brown spine labels. Top edge gilt. Each volume with multiple full-page engravings of the unusual personages presented as biographies. Armorial book-plates on front pastdowns and free endpapers. Some off-setting of engravings onto adjacent pages. Some occasional foxing but generally quitew clean copies. This set of oddities was first published in parts from 1803-1820. There were a total of six volumes published under this title. Each volume is complete in itself, and we have seen sets of four or five offered for sale. They do not come up for sale often and rarely as six volumes. Please note this this set is Volumes 1-5. Please see photos. Size: Crown Octavo. N° de ref. del artículo 015466

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