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1 print : engraving ; platemark 25.1 x 18.4 cm

Three types of lizard and a crocodile. Engraving, ca. 1778.

v-vii pages, 200 page, XI color plate (including frontispiece) : illustrations ; 20 cm

Our reptiles and batrachians : a plain and easy account of the lizards, snakes, newts, toads, frogs and tortoises indigenous to Great Britain / by M.C. Cooke ... with original figures of every species and numerous woodcuts.

Descriptive catalogue of the reptiles of British India / by William Theobald.

1 print : engraving ; platemark 38.3 x 25 cm

Six snakes of the cobra family, including a rhomboidal and diamondbacked species. Engraving, ca. 1778.

Snake anatomy: ventral view of snake with scales; ventral view of internal organs; view of open mouth. Engraving, ca. 1778.

xxiv, 159 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 1 : illustrations ; (8vo)

A history of British reptiles / By Thomas Bell.

Two snakes, one a white amphisbaena species. Engraving, ca. 1778.

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Die Knochen und Muskeln der Extremitaten bei den schlangenähnlichen Sauriern : vergleichend-anatomische Abhandlung / von Max Fürbringer.

1 print : etching ; platemark 43.3 x 55.7 cm

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Three types of lizard and a crocodile. Engraving, ca. 1778.

Our reptiles and batrachians : a plain and easy account of the lizards, snakes, newts, toads, frogs and tortoises indigenous to Great Britain / by M.C. Cooke ... with original figures of every species and numerous woodcuts.

Descriptive catalogue of the reptiles of British India / by William Theobald.

Six snakes of the cobra family, including a rhomboidal and diamondbacked species. Engraving, ca. 1778.

Snake anatomy: ventral view of snake with scales; ventral view of internal organs; view of open mouth. Engraving, ca. 1778.

A history of British reptiles / By Thomas Bell.

Two snakes, one a white amphisbaena species. Engraving, ca. 1778.

Die Knochen und Muskeln der Extremitaten bei den schlangenähnlichen Sauriern : vergleichend-anatomische Abhandlung / von Max Fürbringer.

Snake. Etching, 18--?

Three snakes of the cobra family, including the black-headed cobra and the queen cobra. Engraving, ca. 1778.

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Three types of lizard and a crocodile. Engraving, ca. 1778.

Our reptiles and batrachians : a plain and easy account of the lizards, snakes, newts, toads, frogs and tortoises indigenous to Great Britain / by M.C. Cooke ... with original figures of every species and numerous woodcuts.

Descriptive catalogue of the reptiles of British India / by William Theobald.

Six snakes of the cobra family, including a rhomboidal and diamondbacked species. Engraving, ca. 1778.

Snake anatomy: ventral view of snake with scales; ventral view of internal organs; view of open mouth. Engraving, ca. 1778.

A history of British reptiles / By Thomas Bell.

Two snakes, one a white amphisbaena species. Engraving, ca. 1778.

Die Knochen und Muskeln der Extremitaten bei den schlangenähnlichen Sauriern : vergleichend-anatomische Abhandlung / von Max Fürbringer.

Snake. Etching, 18--?

Three snakes of the cobra family, including the black-headed cobra and the queen cobra. Engraving, ca. 1778.

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