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Certaine secrete wonders of nature, containing a descriptiõ of sundry strange things, seming monstrous in our eyes and iudgement, bicause we are not priuie to the reasons of them. Gathered out of diuers learned authors as well Greeke as Latine, sacred as prophane

Boaistuau, Pierre, -1566, Fenton, Edward · 1569 · London : Imprinted by H. Bynnemann · 4 pictures

Certaine secrete wonders of nature is a 1569 London book of natural marvels and monsters, gathered from Greek and Latin authors by Pierre Boaistuau and translated by Edward Fenton, printed by H. Bynnemann for a general reading public. Three pictures are repeated woodcut strapwork panels of interlaced scrolls and foliage, dense black on pale paper, useful for tiled borders and ornamental pattern repeats; the fourth shows two bearded men at a table with a standing courtier, a plain scene of costume and gesture.

Wonder · Abnormalities, Severe Teratoid · Curiosities and wonders · Monsters

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