Ne plus ultra. Arrived here for a short time only, and to be seen in a commodious room, at the Golden Fleece, in the Market-Place, Hull. The most astonishing and wonderful production of Human Nature ever seen in Europe. Which are absolutely of the Human species

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Title: Ne plus ultra. Arrived here for a short time only, and to be seen in a commodious room, at the Golden Fleece, in the Market-Place, Hull. The most astonishing and wonderful production of Human Nature ever seen in Europe. Which are absolutely of the Human species
Published / Created: [approximately 1795]
Publication Place: Hull and England Hull
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Caption title.
Woodcut illustration in upper margin; text below "The Works of God are Wonderful."
Broadside advertising a menagerie of human and animal curiosities from the Caribbean and South America.
Also advertising ... "Likewise the much admired curiosity the spotted Indian Youth [John Bobey], born of Black parents in Jamaica, ... Likewise the surprising animal the armadillo, or real hog in armour ...
For further information, consult library staff.
Provenance: Maggs Bros.; May 2024.
Extent: 1 sheet ([1] page) : 31 x 19 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

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Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: File 63 795 N338

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Genre: Early works to 1800
Advertisements
Ephemera
Broadsides
Woodcuts
Material: 1 woodcut ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: text
still image
Subject (Geographic): England
London.
Subject (Name): Bobey, John Richardson Primrose, 1774-
Subject (Topic): Abnormalities, Human
Animals
Abnormalities
Menageries
Jamaicans
Subjects: Bobey, John Richardson Primrose, 1774-
Abnormalities, Human
Animals > Abnormalities > Early works to 1800
Menageries > England > London
Jamaicans

Ne plus ultra. Arrived here for a short time only, and to be seen in a commodious room, at the Golden Fleece, in the Market-Place, Hull. The most astonishing and wonderful production of Human Nature ever seen in Europe. Which are absolutely of the Human species

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