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Topsell, Edward
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1,800 - 2,500 USD
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Description
- The Historie of Serpents. Or, the Second Booke of Living Creatures. London: by William Jaggard, 1608
- paper, ink, leather
Folio (312 x 205 mm). Title vignette of boa devouring a child, numerous woodcuts in text; old blindstamp in blank lower margin of title, 10 leaves with faint stain to lower corners. Contemporary calf; rebacked and lower cover repaired, edges worn.
Literature
STC 24124; Nissen ZBI 4146; Wood p.599
Catalogue Note
One of the earliest books in English on snakes.