Sahara sand viper, Cerastes vipera 1, and black asp, Vipera aspis atra, vulnerable 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1795.

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