Narwhal, Monodon monoceros 1, sperm whale or cachalot and skull, Physeter macrocephalus 2, and bowhead whale and skeleton, Balaena mysticetus 3. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Eugene Giraud after an illustration by Felix-Edouard Guérin-Méneville and Édouard Traviès from Guérin-Méneville’s Iconographie du règne animal de George Cuvier, Iconography of the Animal Kingdom by George Cuvier, J. B. Bailliere, Paris, 1829-1844.

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