Endangered Asian elephant, Elephas maximus 133, and Indian rhinoceros, Rhinoceros unicornis 134. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Jacques de Seve from James Smith Barr’s edition of Comte Buffon’s Natural History, A Theory of the Earth, General History of Man, Brute Creation, Vegetables, Minerals, T. Gillet, H. D. Symonds, Paternoster Row, London, 1807.

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