Rhinoceros and elephant. 16th-century artwork of several rhinoceroses and elephants, including a man in a tree (upper right) hunting an elephant with

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Rhinoceros and elephant. 16th-century artwork of several rhinoceroses and elephants, including a man in a tree (upper right) hunting an elephant with a bow-and-arrow. Artwork from 'Cosmographie universelle' (1575) by the French explorer and writer Andre Thevet (1516-1590). This book described the history and geography of the lands in which Thevet had travelled. The two volumes and four tomes contain over 1000 pages divided into 23 books. This woodcut is from chapter XIX of book XI.

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Photo credit: © MIDDLE TEMPLE LIBRARY/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
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