Title page to the Oviparous Quadrupeds volume with vignette of a fanciful species of crocodile, Crocodilo Terrestri, Aegyptico vel Arabico. Woodcut engraving after an illustration by Lucas Schan and Conrad Gessner from Conrad Gessner’s Historiae Animalium, Quadrupedibus Oviparis (Natural history of animals: oviparous quadrupeds), Frankfurt, Wechel for Cambier, 1586.

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