The historie of serpents. Or, the second booke of living creatures. Wherein is contained their divine, naturall, and morall descriptions, with their lively figures, names, conditions, kindes and natures of all venemous beasts: with their severall poysons and antidotes ... Collected out of divine Scriptures, fathers, phylosophers, physicians, and poets: amplified with sundry ... histories, hierogliphicks, epigrams, emblems, and aenigmaticall observations / By Edward Topsell.

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The historie of serpents. Or, the second booke of living creatures. Wherein is contained their divine, naturall, and morall descriptions, with their lively figures, names, conditions, kindes and natures of all venemous beasts: with their severall poysons and antidotes ... Collected out of divine Scriptures, fathers, phylosophers, physicians, and poets: amplified with sundry ... histories, hierogliphicks, epigrams, emblems, and aenigmaticall observations / By Edward Topsell. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.