Tortoise skeleton and German tortoise species. (Le squelette d'une tortue de terre, une tortue de terre d'Allemagne.) Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andreas Hoffer from Georg Wolfgang Knorr's Deliciae Naturae Selectae of Kabinet van Zeldzaamheden der Natuur, Blusse and Son, Nuremberg, 1771. Specimens from a Wunderkammer or Cabinet of Curiosities owned by Dr. Christoph Jacob Trew in Nuremberg.

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