John Valerius, born without hands or arms. Born in 1667 in the Upper Palinate of Germany, exhibited his penmanship, fencing, drinking a glass of liquor, firing a musket, balance and dexterity with his feet in London from 1698-1705. Lithograph after a stipple engraving by Robert Cooper after a Dutch handbill from Henry Wilson and James Caulfield’s Book of Wonderful Characters, Memoirs and Anecdotes, of Remarkable and Eccentric Persons in all ages and countries, John Camden Hotten, Piccadilly, London, 1869.

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