Indian cobra, Naja naja 4, and unknown species called Kalla-Dschin in India 5. Vipere a Lunettes, Coluber naja, Vipere bigarree, Coluber variegatus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Carl Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1813. 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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