The tongue of time, and star of the states: [electronic resource]: a system of human nature, with the phenomena of the heavens and earth. : American antiquities, remains of giants, geology, volcanoes, Egyptian and Indian magic, diet, dress, drinks, diseases, sleep, somnambulism, trances, resuscitation. : Also an account of persons with two souls, and of five persons who told colors by the touch
Joseph Comstock's 1840 Hartford compendium of natural philosophy, antiquities, magic, and medical curiosities, issued cheaply for general American readers. Small relief-cut vignettes, heavily hatched and framed by black borders, show shipwrecked sailors, torchlit cave burials, robed mourners, and figures around fires in a vaulted interior — useful for stark silhouettes, dense line texture, and narrative tableaux.
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