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• Wild Talents (from the 1941 Thayer 1-volume edition; originally published 1933), by Charles Fort (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• The Burning of Troy, and Other Works in Quantavolution, by Alfred De Grazia (PDF files at grazian-archive.com)
• Curiosities for the Ingenious: Selected From the Most Authentic Treasures of Nature, Science and Art, Biography, History, and General Literature (third edition; London: C. Tilt, 1831)
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• Curiosities of Olden Times (London: J. T. Hayes; New York: Pott and Amery, 1869), by S. Baring-Gould
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• Curiosities of Olden Times (revised and enlarged edition; Edinburgh: J. Grant, 1896), by S. Baring-Gould
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• Ten Thousand Wonderful Things: Comprising Whatever is Marvellous and Rare, Curious, Eccentric and Extraordinary in All Ages and Nations (London et al.: G. Routledge And Sons, 1894), ed. by E. F. King
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
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• Things Not Generally Known, Familiarly Explained: A Book for Old and Young (second series; London: Kent and Co., 1859), by John Timbs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wild Talents, by Charles Fort (HTML with commentary at resologist.net)
• De Mirabilibus Auscultationibus (Oxford, UK: At the Clarendon Press, 1909), ed. by Launcelot D. Dowdall
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• The Interview: A Companion Volume to "Enquire Within Upon Everything" (18th thousand; London: Houlston and Wright, 1857), by Robert Kemp Philp (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Mere Nature Delineated, or, A Body Without a Soul: Being Observations Upon the Young Forester Lately Brought to Town from Germany, With Suitable Applications; Also, A Brief Dissertation Upon the Usefulness and Necessity of Fools, Whether Political or Natural (London: Printed for T. Warner, 1726), by Daniel Defoe (multiple formats at archive.org)
• One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed (deluxe edition, 1907), by C. A. Bogardus (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• The Life of Joice Heth, the Nurse of Gen. George Washington (the Father of Our Country), Now Living at the Astonishing Age of 161 Years, and Weighs Only 46 Pounds (prepared for a P. T. Barnum exhibition; 1835) (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• The Terrific Register: or, Record of Crimes, Judgments, Providences and Calamities (2 volumes; London: Sherwood, Jones, and Co.; Edinburgh: Hunter, 1825) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Apollonii Dyscoli Alexandrini grammatici Historiae commentitiae liber, sive, Historiae mirabiles (In Bibliopolio Gleditschiano, 1792), by paradoxographus Apollonius, Anatole de Montaiglon, Ludwig Heinrich Teucher, Wilhelm Xylander, and Johannes van Meurs (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book of wonders; or, pictorial miscellany for the family circle (Asher & Adams, 1850), by Mark Forrester (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le commerce de la curiosité. (H. Champion, 1895), by Edmond Bonnaffé (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Glyptic; or, Musee phusee glyptic: a scrap book of jottings from Stratford-on-Avon and elsewhere, with an attempt at description of Henry Jone's museum (J.R. Smith, 1875), by John William Jarvis (page images at HathiTrust)
• La Curiosite litteraire et bibliographique : Articles litteraires (I. Lisieux, 1880) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Curiosities for the ingenious (Ash and Mason, 1825) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Miscellany of useful and entertaining knowledge (Boston : Gould, Kendall & Lincoln, [185-?], in the 1850s), by William Chambers and Robert Chambers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chun zhu ji wen (Han fen lou :, 1922), by Wei He (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Most uncommon wonders of the works of art and nature : particularly of those, which are most remarkable in America (Printed by Samuel Marks, 1819), by James Hardie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Interview (Houlston & Wright, 1867), by Robert Kemp Philp (page images at HathiTrust)
• The world of wonders : a record of things wonderful in nature, science, and art ... (Cassel Petter & Galpin, 1869) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The New wonderful magazine : consisting of a carefully selected collection of remarkable trials, biographies of wonderful or extraordinary characters, curious histories and adventures, phenomena in nature, the wonders of art, &c., &c. (G.H. Davidson, 1854) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cecil's sixty curious, interesting, and authentic narratives. (Published by Joel Smith, 1825) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shakai banpan bantsuke taishū (Dai Nihon Yūbenkai, 1927), by Shōu Kondō (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A book of curious facts of general interest relating to almost everything under the sun. (A.L. Burt Company, 1903), by Henry Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Curiosities of olden times (T. Whittaker, 1896), by S. Baring-Gould (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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, drawn from every authentic source. Illustrated with one hundred and twenty-four engravings. Chiefly taken from rare and curious prints or original drawings. (R. S. Kirby, 1820), by R. S. Kirby (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ten thousand wonderful things; comprising whatever is marvellous and rare, curious, eccentric and extraordinary in all ages and nations. (G.Routledge and Sons, Ltd., 1894), by E. F. King (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Book of wonders : gives plain and simple answers to the thousands of everyday questions that are asked and which all should be able to, but cannot answer (Presbrey syndicate, inc., 1915), by Rudolph John Bodmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Greatest wonders of the world (The Christian Herald, 1906), by Esther Singleton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The wonders of nature and art, containing an account of the most remarkable and curious animals, and mineral and vegetable productions in the world; also, the manufactures, buildings, and wonderful inventions of man. (A.K. Newman, 1823), by W. Hutton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dictionnaire des merveilles et curiosités de la nature et de l'art ... (J.-P. Migne, 1853), by Adolphe Chesnel de la Charbouclais (page images at HathiTrust)
• The wonders of nature and providence, displayed : compiled from authentic sources, both ancient and modern, giving an account of various and strange phenomena existing in nature, of travels, adventures, singular providences, &c. (J. Priest, 1825), by Josiah Priest (page images at HathiTrust)
• The wonders of nature and providence, displayed : compiled from authentic sources, both ancient and modern, giving an account of various and strange phenomena existing in nature, of travels, adventures, singular providences, &c. (J. Priest, 1826), by Josiah Priest (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le monde des merveilles; tableau pittoresque des grands phénomènes de la nature et des manifestations du génie de l'homme dans les sciences, l'industrie et les arts (Librarie illustrée [etc., 1878), by Adolphe Louis Émile Bitard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Entertaining knowledge (Routledge, Warne & Routledge, 1860) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cabinet of curiosities, natural, artificial, and historical (Hartford, 1822), by Samuel G. Goodrich (page images at HathiTrust)
• The wonders of the world : in nature, art, and mind ... (Robert Sears, 1843), by Robert Sears (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geschichtliche Denkwürdigkeiten und Seltenheiten der Natur, durch Kupferblätter anschaulich gemacht, und für alle Stände zum Nuzen und Vergnügen fasslich beschrieben. (Nürnberg, 1813) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kirby's wonderful museum (R. S. Kirby, 1802), by R. S. Kirby (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le trésor de la curiosité tiré des catalogues de vente ... et précédé d'une lettre [de A.N. Thibaudeau] ... sur la curiosité et les curieux. (Renouard, 1857), by Charles Blanc (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chambers's miscellany of useful and entertaining tracts. (William and Robert Chambers, 1847), by Robert Chambers and William Chambers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Samīr al-layālī (al-Maktabah al-Ahlīyah, 1898), by Muḥammad Amīn al-Ṣūfī Sukkarī (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Komische Merkwürdigkeiten aus alten theologischen Makulaturen ... ([s.n.], 1789), by Karl Güntherode and Harold Jantz Collection (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• De septem orbis spectaculis. (Sumtibus F.C.G. Vogelii, 1816), by of Tyre Adrianus, active 3rd century Callinicus, Johann Konrad Orelli, Leone Allacci, Denis Salvaing de Boissieu, and of Byzantium Philo (page images at HathiTrust)
• The cabinet of curiosities, or, Wonders of the world displayed, forming a repository of whatever is remarkable in the regions of nature and art, extraordinary events, and eccentric biography. (Printed for J. Limbird, 1824) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Peter Parley's book of curiosities, natural and artificial. Illustrated by one hundred engravings. (Richardson, Lord & Holbrook [etc.], 1832), by Samuel G. Goodrich (page images at HathiTrust)
• The cabinet of curiosities; or, Wonders of the world displayed, forming a repository of whatever is remarkable in the regions of nature & art, extraordinary events, & eccentric biography. (M'Elrath, 1832) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selection of interesting and authentic anecdotes. (Printed by Chambers and Hallagan, 1825) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of curios in the private museum of Charles Q. Eldredge, Old Mystic, Conn., containing items of tragedy, romance, war, murder, comedy, love, rum and prohibition gathered during the past seventy years. (C.Q. Eldredge, 1926), by Charles Q. Eldredge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Musee phusee glyptic (J. R. Smith, 1875), by John William Jarvis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les merveilles du monde; ou, Les plus beaux ouvrages de la nature et des hommes, répandus sur toute la surface de la terre. (Paris, 1832), by chevalier de Propiac (page images at HathiTrust)
• Parley's panorama; or, Curiosities of nature and art, history and biography; a new edition, with improvements to the latest date (E. Nebhut & Brothers, 1861), by Samuel G. Goodrich (page images at HathiTrust)
• Marvelous wonders of the whole world being an account of thrilling adventures, famous sights, celebrated voyages, and renowned explorations and discoveries in all parts of the globe ... (J. Bergen, 1886), by Henry Davenport Northrop (page images at HathiTrust)
• Almacen universal. Articulos de historia, geografia, viajes, literatura y variedades. (Gonzalez, 1840) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The day-book of wonders. (Unwin, 1903), by David Morgan Thomas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The book of oddities. (Simpkin, 1882), by William Andrews (page images at HathiTrust)
• The wonders of the world,in nature,art, and mind; comprising a complete library of useful and entertaining knowledge. (E.Walker, 1848), by Robert Sears (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prachtwerke der unterwelt; das ist: fresco-gemählde aller merkwürdigkeiten, seltenheiten und sehenswürdigkeiten, die von den ältesten zeiten bis auf den heutigen tag unter der erde entdeckt worden sind; oder naturhistorisch-mahlerische beschreibung der in England, Frankreich, Italien, Deutschland, Österreich, Ungarn. Siebenbürgen, Pohlen Befindlichen höhlen, grotten erdfälle, berg- und salzwerke, versteinerungen, unterirdischen naturwunder, mineralischen quellen, vulkane, verschütteten städte, tempel, palläste, aquäducte, ausgegrabenen natur- und kunstschätze. (Mayer und compagnie, 1833), by Andreas Engelhart and R. Phillips (page images at HathiTrust)
• The wonders of the world, comprising startling incidents, interesting scenes, and wonderful events in all countries, in all ages, among all people. (Bancroft, 1882), by C. C. Rosenberg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Popular science library : the wonders of nature and the achievements of man (J. A. Hill, 1906) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Magic, pretended miracles, and remarkable natural phenomena. (American Sunday-School Union ;, 1855), by McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress) and Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wunder-Cabinet : gesammelte Bruchstücke, zur Kenntniss ausergewöhnlicher und noch wenig bekannter Gegenstände unsers Erdballes und seiner Bewohner (In Joseph Müller's Buchhandlung, 1818), by A. B. Bertuch and Duke University. Library. Jantz Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das Wunderbüchlein, oder, Nachrichten von blauen Feuern, Irrwischen, Blut-Schwefel und Froschregen, Todespropheten, Kometen, Wünschelruthen und andern merkwürdigen Dingen : zur Belehrung gegen den Aberglauben. (In der Dannheimer'schen Buchhandlung, 1806), by Duke University. Library. Jantz Collection. German Baroque Literature (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ausserordentliche Erscheinungen am Geiste und Körper des Menschen. (Gedruckt bey Anton v. Haykul, 1805), by Duke University. Library. Jantz Collection. German Baroque Literature (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Zusammenhang der Seele mit der Giesterwelt : populär dargestellt und belegt mit einer Sammlung merkwürdiger Ahnungen und Träume ; mit sehr interessanten Beispielen des Fernsehens und des zweiten Gesichts, und mit Erscheinungen des Magnetismus und der Geisterwelt (Bei Imle und Krauss, 1834), by Stilling W. and Duke University. Library. Jantz Collection. German Baroque Literature (page images at HathiTrust)
• The wonders of the world in nature, art and mind : comprising a complete library of useful and entertaining knowledge ; illustrated with several hundred engravings (Edward Walker, 1849), by Robert Sears (page images at HathiTrust)
• The wonders of the world. (Brett Smith, 1825) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Everybody's scrap book of curious facts; a book for odd moments (Saxon, 1890), by Don Lemon (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Book of wonders, gives plain and simple answers to the thousands of everyday questions that are asked and which all should be able to, but cannot answer. (Presbrey syndicate, inc., 1914), by Amelie Willard Bodmer and Rudolph John Bodmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Encyclopedia of natural and artificial wonders and curiosities : including a full and authentic description of remarkable and astonishing places, beings, animals, customs, experiments, phenomena, etc., of both ancient and modern times, in all parts of the globe : comprising correct accounts of the most wonderful freaks of nature and arts of man (World Pub. House, 1876), by John Platts (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wonders of the world : places and objects of great historic interest, the grandest objects and scenes in nature, and those works of art which have acquired a world-wide fame, are here described (A. Mudge and son, 1873), by Henry Freeman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Book of wonders, gives plain and simple answers to the thousands of everyday questions that are asked and which all should be able to, but cannot answer. (Bureau of Industrial Education., 1916), by Rudolph J. Bodmer, Rudolph John Bodmer, Inc Bureau of Industrial Education, and Inc L.H. Jenkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• The home-book of wonders, in nature, science and art: a description of the wonderful phenomena of nature, and the achievements of science and art. (R.J. Trumbull, 1868), by John Loraine Abbott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Natur-Wunder und Länder-Merkwürdigkeiten : ein Beytrag zur Verdrängung unnützer und schädlicher Romane ([s.n.], 1811), by G. C. Wagner and Duke University. Library. Jantz Collection. German Baroque Literature (page images at HathiTrust)
• Seltenheiten der Natur, der Kunst und des Menschenlebens : zur Unterhaltung und Belehrung ([s.n.], 1808), by Verfasser der Gallerie des Wundervollen and Duke University. Library. Jantz Collection. German Baroque Literature (page images at HathiTrust)
• The twenty-one wonders of the world : with illustrations of the fourteen existing subjects. (Williamson-Haffner Engraving Co., 1903), by Sara S. Sharp (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das Buch der 1000 Wunder (A. Langen, 1916), by Artur Fu rst and Alexander Moszkowski (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The great wonders of this little world, or, A general history of good men, bad men, great men, little men, &c. &c., : displaying the various faculties, capacities, powers and defects of the human body and mind, in many thousand most interesting relations of persons remarkable for bodily perfections or defects : collected from the writings of the most approved historians, philosophers and phisicians, of all ages and countries. ([publisher not identified], 1818), by Nathaniel Wanley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Wonders of the universe. (J. & B. Williams, 1836) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Entwurff einer historischen Architectur : in Abbildung unterschiedener berühmten Gebäude, des Alterthums, und fremder Völcker, umb aus den Geschicht-Büchern, Gedächtnüss-Müntzen, Ruinen, und eigeholten wahrhafften Abrissen, von Augen zu stellen. In dem ersten Buche. Die von der Zeit vergrabene Bau-Arten der alten Jüden, Egÿptier, Sÿrer, Perser, und Griechen. In dem andren. Alte unbekante römische. In dem dritten. Einige fremde in- und ausser-europäische, als der Araber, und Türcken, etc. auch neue persianische, siamitische, sinesische und japonesische Gebäude. In dem vierten. Einige Gebäude von des autoris Erfindung und Zeichnung. ([publisher not identified], 1725), by Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, Johann Ulrich Krauss, Johann Andreas Pfeffel, Christian Engelbrecht, Charles de La Haye, Benjamin Kenckel, and Johann Adam Delsenbach (page images at HathiTrust)
• Magazine of remarkable characters (R.S. Kirby ... , 1820), by R. S. Kirby (page images at HathiTrust)
• The wonders of the universe : a record of things wonderful and marvelous in nature, science and art (The Werner Co., 1899) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Wunder der Welt : hervorragende Naturschöpfungen und staunenswerke Menschenwerke aller Zeiten und Länder in Wort und Bild (Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, 1900), by Ernst von Hesse-Wartegg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• De monstrorvm cavssis, natvra, et differentiis libri dvo (Apud Paulum Frambottum, 1634), by Fortunio Liceti, Varisco Varisco, and Paolo Frambotto (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wonders of nature, as seen and described by famous writers (Dodd, 1908), by Esther Singleton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The world's greatest wonders. (Garden City publishing co., inc., 1940), by inc. Garden City Publishing Company (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Wonderland : or, Couriosities of nature and art. (T. Nelson, 1897), by Wood Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life and sketches of curious and odd characters : illustrated with twenty-four engravings. (C. Gaylord, 1840), by George Clarke, Charles Gaylord, and Abel Bowen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Marvelous wonders ([Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1890, 1890), by Henry Davenport Northrop (page images at HathiTrust)
• De monstrorum natura, caussis, et differentiis libri duo. (Apud Paulum Frambottum, 1634), by Fortunio Liceti (page images at HathiTrust)
• Monstrorvm historia memorabilis (Ex Officina typographia Matthiae Beckeri, impensis viduae Theodori de Bry, & duorum eius filiorum, 1609), by Johann Georg Schenck, Matthias Becker, Theodor de Bry, and Theodor de Bry (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ripley's believe it or not : wonder book of strange facts. (Universal Guild, 1957), by Robert Le Roy Ripley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• [Otia imperialia] ([Southern France (?) or Italy], 1275), by of Tilbury Gervase and Cornell University. Library. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das buch der 1000 wunder (Albert Langen, 1920), by Artur Fürst and Alexander Moszkowski (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Museum Wormianum, seu, Historia rerum rariorum, tam naturalium, quam artificialium, tam domesticarum, quam exoticarum : quae Hafniae Danorum in aedibus authoribus servantur ... (Amstelodami : Apud Ludovicum & Danielem Elzevirios, 1655., 1655), by Ole Worm, Louis Elzevir, and Daniel Elzevir (page images at HathiTrust)
• Magic, Pretended Miracles, and Remarkable Natural Phenomena (Gutenberg ebook)
• A brief collection of many rare secrets many of which are approved and physical and the rest most pleasant and recreative : very necessary for all sorts of people / newly set forth and published by La Fountain, an expert operator. (London printed : [s.n.], 1650), by La Fountaine and Edward Fountaine (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A Strange and wonderful relation of a clap of thunder: which lately set fire to the dwelling-house of one Widow Rosingrean, living in the town of Ewloe, in the parish of Howerden in the county of Flint ... : also another relation of a sow of one John Bartington's of Broad-Lane in the same town ... (London : Printed for W. Harris, 1677) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Unparalleld varieties: or, The matchless actions and passions of mankind.: Displayed in near four hundred notable instances and examples. Discovering the transcendent effects; I. Of love, friendship, and gratitude. II. Of magnanimity, courage, and fidelity. III. Of chastity, temperance, and humility. And on the contrary the tremendous consequences, IV. Of hatred, revenge, and ingratitude. V. Of cowardice, barbarity, treachery. VI. Of unchastity, intemperance, and ambition. : Imbellished with proper figures. / By R.B. ... (London : Printed for Nath. Crouch, at his shop at the sign of the Bell in the Poultry, 1683), by 1632?-1725? R. B. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A strange and lamentable accident that happened lately at Mears-Ashby in Northamptonshire. 1642.: Of one Mary Wilmore, wife to Iohn Wilmore rough mason, who was delivered of a childe without a head, and credibly reported to have a firme crosse on the brest, as this ensuing story shall relate. (Printed at London : for Rich: Harper and Thomas Wine, and are to be sold at the Bible and Harpe in Smithfield, 1642), by John Locke (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Museum & wax-work, at the Exchange, New-York, the public are informed that this American Museum contains an extensive collection of the productions of nature and art: among which are the following ... ([New York : s.n., 1793]), by N.Y. : Established 1790) American Museum (New York and Gardiner Baker (HTML at Evans TCP)

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