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[MONSTROSITIES]. Three 16th and 17th century engravings of freaks and oddities. Including: engraving depicting a multi-headed, eight-armed Cyclops monster with goat legs (ca. 1654), and is apparently the original print which was reproduced in Eugen Holländer’s Wunder, Wundergeburt und Wondergestalt (Stuttgart, 1921) p. 289. – engraving, Horribil mostre, nato in Cher della moglie di un Dottor a hore otto All’Arca di Noe, 1578, depicting a horned monster with claws and protuberance from back of the head. See Holländer, p. 286. – and engraving of conjoined twins with bow and arrows and saber, ca. 1687. See Holländer, p. 70. All uniformly matted and framed (the last without glass). Sizes approximately 11 x 7” and smaller.