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With woodcut illustrations of snakes, crocodiles, dragons, frogs, tortoises etc.
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Edward Topsell :

The History of Serpents.

London, E. Cotes, 1658. Folio. 32 x 20,5 cms. Pp. [iv] + 591-818 + [6]. With woodcut title vignette of a child being swallowed by a boa, and other woodcut illustrations.

Modern half morocco, some finger-soiling and occasional staining, marginal dampstaining, title stained, with scribbles in ink and a mended tear, corner of pp. 783/4 with repair of slight corner loss affecting pagination only. Two leaves bound out of order. Bookplate of W. A. Harding, Madingley.

The second part only (of 3, pp.591-818) of Topsell's ”The History of Four-footed Beasts and Serpents” of 1658 (second edition), with its own separate title. It covers bees & wasps, chameleons, crocodiles, dragons, frogs & toads, lizards, scorpions, spiders, and tortoises as well as snakes.

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