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  • The Zoological Museum ... : Mr. Seaman, (as manager for a society of gentlemen, to whom this collection belongs) begs to inform the ladies and gentlemen of this town, that he has just arrived with that extensive and valuable Museum, containing many thousands of natural curiosities ...
  • A chemist's laboratory, with the apparatus numbered for a key. Engraving, 1748.
  • Five types of lizard, including the large spotted ground lizard and brown lizard. Engraving, ca. 1778.
  • Snake. Etching, 18--?.
  • A witch placing a scorpion into a pot in order to make a potion. Etching by F. Landerer after M. Schmidt.
  • Two snakes: a rattlesnake and a boa. Engraving, ca. 1778.
  • Saint Patrick banishing reptiles from Ireland. Coloured woodcut (?).
  • The Zoological Museum ... : Mr. Seaman, (as manager for a society of gentlemen, to whom this collection belongs) begs to inform the ladies and gentlemen of this town, that he has just arrived with that extensive and valuable Museum, containing many thousands of natural curiosities ...
  • Six snakes of the cobra family, including a rhomboidal and diamondbacked species. Engraving, ca. 1778.
  • Two species of rattlesnake and the rattle of one of them. Engraving, ca. 1778.
  • Six species of tortoise, including the african land tortoise. Engraving, ca. 1778.
  • Three chameleons on a shelf (top); one chameleon with larvae (bottom left); a large rodent eating a mouse (bottom right). Etching.
  • Three large snakes in the gardens of the Zoological Sociey, Regent's Park. Wood engraving, ca. 1850.
  • Two snakes of the boa family: a rat-eating snake and goat-eating snake. Engraving, ca. 1778.
  • Three snakes: a horned viper; a Madagascan langaha; a grass snake. Engraving, ca. 1778.
  • Desert-dwelling reptile from Egypt: two figures, the lower showing the reptile's skeleton. Coloured lithograph by Ch. Normand after J.J. Rifaud, 1830.
  • A cayman and its young emerging from an egg. Engraving, ca. 1778.
  • Snake anatomy: ventral view of snake with scales; ventral view of internal organs; view of open mouth. Engraving, ca. 1778.
  • Eight snakes, including a reticulated python, a slow worm, a thirst snake, a Russell's viper and a mythical two-headed serpent. Engraving, ca. 1778.
  • Insects and reptiles from different parts of the world, including a hooded serpent, a locust and an elephant beetle. Etching by W. Grainger.
  • Five snakes of the cobra family, one a coral snake eating a lizard. Engraving, ca. 1778.
  • Nile-dwelling reptile: two figures, the lower showing the reptile's skeleton. Coloured lithograph by Mme. Nobling after J.J. Rifaud, 1830.
  • A chameleon on a branch with landscape background. Etching.
  • A chemist's laboratory, with the apparatus numbered for a key. Engraving, 1748.
  • Sale of reptiles (restriction) bill / UFAW.
  • Four snakes of the cobra family. Engraving, ca. 1778.
  • A banded rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus) and boa constrictor (Boa constrictor) with diagrams of their open mouths. Engraving, ca. 1823.
  • Directions for collecting objects of natural history / Andrew Murray, of Conland, 1, Scotland Street, Edinburgh.
  • Two types of lizard, including the large spotted ground lizard. Engraving, ca. 1778.
  • One cobra and four colubrid snakes, including possibly an oriental whip snake and the primitive worm-like species, Leptotyphlops humilis. Engraving, ca. 1778.