Africa: indigenous plants and mammals of Ethiopia, including elephants and hippopotami. Engraving.

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1 print : engraving, with etching ; platemark 35.2 x 20.7 cm

Ludolphus history of Ethiopia. Flocks of elephants that lay wast whole forrests. A cornfield defended by a she elephant. The Ethiopian fonkes, in the Amharic dialect called Guereza. A sort of little animal of the kind of those which the Hollanders call Danguinen ... Lettering continues: It seems to be the Callithrix or fair-hair of the Antients: Wee thought fitt to call it Celopitheculus or Galeopitheculus, the marmoset with a tayle or a capp. Hippopotamus the sea cow or the river horse by the Italians. The sea horse putting his head above the water, thence call'd the river horse by the Greekes Bears number top right : page 392

Wellcome Collection 42202i