The Wonders of the Little World; or, A General History of Man:Displaying the various faculties, capacities, powers and defects of the human body and mind,in many thousand most interesting relations of persons remarkable for bodily perfections or defects;collected from the writings of the most approved Historians, Philosophers, and Physicians, of all Ages and Countries,Forming a Complete System of the Mental and Corporeal Powers and Defects of Human Nature;And intended to increase Knowledge, to promote Virtue, to discourage Vice, and to furnish Topics for Innocent and Ingenious Conversation,By Nathaniel WanleyA new Editionwith the addition of much new and curious matter carefully selected from all attainable sources and the whole revised and correctedBy Wm. Johnston.Two VolumesPrinted for W.J. and J. Richardson; Otridge and son; R. Faulder; Cuthell A Martin; J. Walker; Ogilvy and son; R. Lea; Lackington; Allen A. E. Jeffrey; Darton and Harvey; T. Booker; Crosby and Co.; Blacks and J. Harris; J. Harding; Scatcherd and Letterman; J. Asperne; Longma Rees and Orme; and Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe.1806Both volumes in good (plus condition) - some rubbing to marbled boards (volume 2 has more rubbing than volume 1), both have ex libris plates inside front board; pages are well bound and bright with some minimal foxing (small stain to top of frontispiece of volume 1)..Volume 1 - 408pp.Volume 2 - 552