Common lancehead, Bothrops atrox 1, buff striped keelback, Amphiesma stolatum 2, Amazon false fer-de-lance, Xenodon severus 3, and three-scaled groundsnake, Liophis triscalis, swallowing a lizard 4. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Carl Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1810. A 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with almost 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830.

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