To the nobility, gentry, and the curious for inspecting most extraordinary human beings, of the wild species born. To be seen at No. 4, Capel Court, opposite the Bank of England, Bartholomew-Lane, from ten o'clock in the morning, till nine in the evening, three wonderful phoenomena, wild born, of the human species

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Lewis Walpole Library > To the nobility, gentry, and the curious for inspecting most extraordinary human beings, of the wild species born. To be seen at No. 4, Capel Court, opposite the Bank of England, Bartholomew-Lane, from ten o'clock in the morning, till nine in the evening, three wonderful phoenomena, wild born, of the human species


33459219

Description

Title
To the nobility, gentry, and the curious for inspecting most extraordinary human beings, of the wild species born. To be seen at No. 4, Capel Court, opposite the Bank of England, Bartholomew-Lane, from ten o'clock in the morning, till nine in the evening, three wonderful phoenomena, wild born, of the human species
Alternative Title
Three wonderful phoenomena, wild born, of the human species
By permission of the Right Honorable the Lord Mayor
Published / Created
[1787]
Publication Place
London and England London
Publisher
publisher not identified
Description
Handbill advertising the exhibition of three people with large neck goiters, described as "two females and a male, of a very small stature, ... each with a monstrous craw under the throat, containing within, ... balls or glands, more or less big than an egg each of them ...”
Not in ESTC.
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Provenance
Maggs Bros.; November 2025.
Extent
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 16 x 14 cm
Extent of Digitization
This object has been completely digitized.
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
File 66 787 T627

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
handbills
Broadsides
Advertisements
Ephemera
Resource Type
text
Subject (Topic)
Goiter
Abnormalities, Human
Subjects
Goiter
Abnormalities, Human

Access And Usage Rights

Access
Public

Identifiers

Catalog Record
991011245435908651
Object ID (OID)
33459219

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