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The Hundred Wonders of the World SOLD
The Hundred Wonders of the World
and of the three KINGDOMS OF NATURE
described according to the best and latest authorities
C.C.Clarke
£100
Printed for Sir Richard Phillips, 1821, tenth edition enlarged and improved, later half calf binding with marbled paper sides, gold tooled lettering label on spine, 12mo. (18x11x5.5cm), xii/668pp/40 engraved plates,good, sound copy.
Short essays, many illustrated, on such subjects as Vesuvius, Mont Blanc, Derbyshire, Pompei, Giant's Causeway, Subterranean Forests, waterfalls, meteors, sea serpents, the Pyramids, Temples of Elephants, Stonehenge, the Louvre, General Post Office, Dr. Herschel's Grand telescope, Bullock's Museum, Piccadilly, the Diving Bell, etc. etc. I could go on. That's £1 per wonder, can't say fairer than that.
“These marvellous relations which the mischievous fancy of travellers has too often imposed on the credulity of the weak, as well as the fables founded in bigotry and priestcraft, which were received as truths in the dark ages, have been sedulously shunned: where the subjects treated have incidentally led to them, they have, on the other hand,been as carefully exposed.” from the Preface.