The historie of serpents. Or, The second booke of liuing creatures
Subtitle: 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 sorts of men: collected out of diuine scriptures, fathers, phylosophers, physitians, and poets: amplified with sundry accidentall histories, hierogliphicks, epigrams, emblems, and ænigmaticall obseruations
By: by Edvvard Topsell
Series: Early English books online
Publisher: Printed by William Jaggard
Published: 1608
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Translated from: lat
Number of pages: 315
Subjects: Natural History; Zoology; Reptiles; Pre-Linnean works; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Historie of serpents; Historie of serpents. Or, The second booke of living creatures.; Second booke of living creatures.; Second booke of liuing creatures; Second book of living creatures
Notes: In the title, the first word is xylographic.

Leaves 2E3,4 are in two settings: E3v line 18 has either "waters, as in a Boate." or "in a boate." --STC.

Includes bibliographic references and indexes.

STC (2nd ed.) 24124.

ESTC S122051

Nissen, C. Zoologische Buchillustration, 4146

Wellcome cat. of printed books, I, 6324

Wood, C.A. Vertebrate zoology, p. 599

Bound with the author's Historie of foure-footed beastes (1607; STC 24123).