[Rarebooks] FS: Early 19th Century Illustrated Collection of Freaks and Curiosities

[Charles Agvent]

Featured in our "booth" at the ABAA Virtual Book Fair which closes this 
evening at 10 PM EDT.

[KIRBY, R. S.]. THE WONDERFUL AND SCIENTIFIC MUSEUM: OR, MAGAZINE OF 
REMARKABLE CHARACTERS; Including All the Curiosities of Nature and Art, 
 From the Remotest Period to the Present Time, Drawn from Every 
Authentic Source. London: T. Keating, 1803 - 1820. First Edition. Six 
octavo (5" x 8-1/4") volumes bound in 19th Century 1/2 calf leather with 
matching corners and marbled boards, gilt-decorated spines with 
gilt-lettered morocco spine labels. Illustrated with 112 full-page 
engravings (1 folding) as well as several engravings in the text. A 
remarkable work presenting a sort of circus side-show of interesting, 
amusing and/or grotesque people and things, an early-day Ripley and 
Guinness combined. The physically deformed, unusually aged, miserly 
misfits, eccentric hermits, amazing muscular specimens, criminally 
insane, and many other characters as well as freakish animas are 
described and illustrated. Bookplates of James McDonald and small 
bookseller label of Hugh Hopkins to front pastedowns. Complete sets are 
quite scarce. Offsetting from plates to text, occasional foxing but 
generally clean, two plates with short closed tears, one with large 
corner-chip repaired. Chip to the top of the first volume, otherwise 
only mild wear. Overall Near Fine. (#019985)    $2,500

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