curiosa

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Chapbooks, Broadsides, and Ballads: a curious byway of book-collecting this, for the knowledge to be gleaned from these curiosa is not probably of great value.

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  1. plural noun Books or other writings dealing with unusual, especially pornographic, topics.

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  1. New Latin cūriōsa, neuter pl. of Latin cūriōsus, inquisitive; see curious.
 

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