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1. 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]
Call Number:: File 63 795 N338
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: text and still image
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 ..., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):: England and London.
Subject (Name):: Bobey, John Richardson Primrose, 1774-
Subject (Topic):: Abnormalities, Human, Animals, Abnormalities, Menageries, and Jamaicans
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > 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

2. Scrapbook of advertisements, broadsides, poetry, newspaper clippings, etc., 1745-1838 (bulk 1780-1800).

Call Number:: Folio 66 748 Sc43
Image Count:: 234
Abstract:: A scrapbook of advertisements, broadsides, single sheet verse, newspaper clippings, with some manuscript materials laid in, somewhat organized topically, with material covering over a 95-year period, from the 1740s to 1838, but mostly dating from the last quarter of the 18th century. Topics included are: Gallantry, matrimony, conjurers and fortune tellers, clubs and societies, places of entertainment, spectacles such as exotic animals, curiosities of nature, freaks, etc. ; sporting events; advertisements for apparel; medical remedies and cosmetics; plays, ballets, and performances; obituaries and accounts of strange deaths; schools for gentlemen; balloon flights; puppets, mechanical inventions; comic poetry, epigrams, epitaphs, odes, ballads; jokes; accounts of ghosts and spiritual magic; auctions; religion; want ads; cooking; army recruiting; real estate; advertisements for books; strange accounts of bizarre crimes; traps; fire-fighting; accounts of the Thames; tobacco ads; shoes; public notices; election posters; fugitives from justice; wills and last testaments; lottery ads; notices relating to the Bonapartes; and other ads and reports including a print of a mummy
Description:: In English, with some entries in French., Title assigned by cataloger., Signed on inside front cover: "Beauchamp 1837.", and Imperfect impression of "A view of the menagerie in the King's Private Road," with bottom half of plate missing; laid in; not digitized.
Subject (Geographic):: England., England, and France
Subject (Topic):: Ballooning, Beauty, Personal, Clothing and dress, Entertainment events, Freak shows, Ghosts, Lotteries, Medical instruments and apparatus, Menageries, Sports, Violent crimes, Social life and customs, and Foreign public opinion, British
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Scrapbook of advertisements, broadsides, poetry, newspaper clippings, etc., 1745-1838 (bulk 1780-1800).