Asian elephant, Elephas maximus, endangered. The Elephant in the Gardens of the Zoological Society. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from William Smellie’s translation of Count Georges Buffon’s History of the Earth and Animated Nature, Thomas Kelly, London, 1829.

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