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(Animals, Exotic) | Exhibition of exotic animals, mostly reptilian, and free lessons with the purchase of a magical instrument

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October 28, 08:54 PM GMT

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800 - 1,200 USD

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(Animals, Exotic)

William Griffith. This is to give Notice that there is to be seen … A Collection of Strange Creatures, the like never seen before in England. [London: np, ca. 1730?]


Printed advertisement (165 x 92 mm). Woodcut stamp of George II.


A menagerie exhibition with an announcement of "Instruments for performing Dexterity of Hand, at Reasonable Rates, by William Griffith"—most likely by the author of The Whole Art of Legerdemain in Perfection and co-exhibitor with Matthias Buchinger.