Basking shark, Cetorhinus maximus, endangered 1, and nurse shark, Ginglymostoma cirratum 2. Le squale tres grand, Squalus maximus, le squale pointille, Squalus punctulatus. Handcoloured stipple engraving from le Comte de la Cépède’s Oeuvres du comte de Lacépède, comprenant l’histoire naturelle des poissons, Paris, circa 1850. The uncredited illustrations were copied from originals by Jacques de Seve, Marcus Bloch, Robert Benard, Jean-Gabriel Pretre, etc.

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