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Top 10 Best "Curiosities" Books

#10

A Cabinet of Roman Curiosities

J. C. McKeown

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Cabinet of Natural Curiosities

Albertus Seba's Cabinet of Natural Curiosities is one of the 18th century's greatest natural history achievements and remains one of the most prized natural history books of all time.Though it was common for men of his profession to collect natural specimens for research purposes, Amsterdambased pharmacist Albertus Seba (1665–1736) had a passion that led him far beyond the call of duty. His amazing, unprecedented collection of animals, plants and insects from all around the world gained international fame during his lifetime. In 1731, after decades of collecting, Seba commissioned illustrations of each and every specimen and arranged the publication of a four-volume catalog detailing his entire collection-from strange and exotic plants to snakes, frogs, crocodiles, shellfish, corals, insects, butterflies and more, as well as fantastic beasts, such as a hydra and a dragon. Seba's scenic illustrations, often mixing plants and animals in a single plate, were unusual even for the time. Many of the stranger and more peculiar creatures from Seba's collection, some of which are now ext...

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 #9

Strange Maps

Frank Jacobs

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#8

Travis Louie's Curiosities

Travis Louie

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#7

The Old Curiosity Shop (Penguin Classics)

Charles Dickens
Norman Page

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#6

Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities

Ian Stewart

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#5

The Cabinet of Curiosities (Pendergast, Book 3)

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#4

Pictorial Webster's

John M. Carrera

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#3

Altered Curiosities

Jane Ann Wynn

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#2

Morbid Curiosity

Alan W. Petrucelli

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All of us have moments in our lives
that test our courage.
Taking children into a house
with a white carpet is one of them.


Car designers are just going to have to come up
with an automobile that outlasts the payments.


How come anything you buy
will go on sale next week?

Erma Bombeck

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A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities

Jan Bondeson

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Albertus Seba's Cabinet of Natural Curiosities (Jumbo)

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