The Book of Curiosities

THE
BOOK OF CURIOSITIES:
CONTAINING
TEN THOUSAND
WONDERS AND CURIOSITIES
NATURE AND ART;
AND OF
Remarkable and Astonishing PLACES, BEINGS, ANIMALS, CUSTOMS, EXPERIMENTS, PHENOMENA, etc., of both Ancient and Modern Times, on all Parts of the GLOBE: comprising Authentic Accounts of the most WONDERFUL FREAKS of NATURE and ARTS of MAN.
BY THE REV. I. PLATTS.
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION.
COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME.
PHILADELPHIA: PUBLISHED BY LEARY & GETZ. 1854.