NOW ON EXHIBITION / IN THIS PLACE, FOR A SHORT TIME ONLY / BURNS' / AMERICAN MUSEUM! followed

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$1,250 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

NP: np, nd 1860s? . Broadsheet, 2 pp., 53 x 18 cm. Proprietor B.P. Burns advertises many curiosities contained in his Museum... including one of Old Ocean's Greatest Wonders the Great Leathery Turtle from the Meditertanean Sea. Included is a vignette, 6 x 13 cm., depicting this giant creature being harpooned by three men in a small boat. The text notes the monster was captured by a party of sailors, September 29, near Nepedge, L.I. A description of the

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