Volume 2

The menageries. Quadrupeds, described and drawn from living subjects. Volume the first [-second] / Anon.

  • James Rennie
Date:
1829-1831
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Credit: The menageries. Quadrupeds, described and drawn from living subjects. Volume the first [-second] / Anon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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