The historie of serpents. or, the second booke of liuing creatures: : wherein is contained their diuine, naturall, and morall descriptions, with their liuely figures, names, conditions, kindes and natures of all venemous beasts: with their seuerall poysons and antidotes; their deepe hatred to mankind, and the wonderfull worke of God in their creation, and destruction. Necessary and profitable to all sortes of men: collected out of diuine Scriptures, fathers, phylosophers, physitians, and poets: amplified with sundry accidentall histories, hierogliphicks, epigrams, emblems, and aenigmaticall obseruations. /
Topsell, Edward,1572-1625?
London, : Printed by William Jaggard,,
1608..
First word of title is xylographic.
Signatures: A-V⁶ 2A-2H⁶.
The first leaf is blank.
Leaves 2E3,4 are in two settings: 2E3v line 18 has either (1) "waters, as in a Boate." or (2) "in a boate." (STC).
Bound with: Historie of foure-footed beastes / Edward Topsell.
STC (2nd ed.)
ESTC
Reptiles
Zoology
England London.