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The historie of serpents, or, The second booke of living creatures (title page)
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| Title | The historie of serpents, or, The second booke of living creatures (title page) |
| Author | Topsell, Edward, 1572-1625? |
| Publisher | Jaggard, William, 1569-1623
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| Publisher Location | England -- London |
| Publication Date | 1608 |
| Printer | Jaggard, William, 1569-1623
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| Illustrator | Unknown
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| Image Production Process | Relief prints--woodcuts
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| Notes | Illustrated with uncolored woodcuts.
Includes ancient legends about actual animals such as toads and lizards and reports of mythical creatures such as dragons and cockatrices.
Printed on the title page: Wherein is contained their divine, naturall, and morall descriptions, with their lively figures, names, conditions, kindes and natures of all venemous beasts: with their severall 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 divine scriptures, fathers, phylosophers, physicians, and poets: amplified with sundry accidentall histories, hierogliphicks, epigrams, emblems, and ænigmaticall observations.
The title page has an image labeled "The Boas" and depicts a boa constrictor eating a baby. |
| Contextual Notes | Edward Topsell was an English cleric who wrote books on religious and moral themes before writing his History of Four-footed Beasts and History of Serpents. |
| Subjects (LCSH) | Serpents -- Early works to 1800; Reptiles -- Early works to 1800; Zoology -- Pre-Linnean works |
| Category | Natural sciences
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| Language | English |
| Digital Collection | Children's Historical Literature Collection |
| Digital ID Number | CHL1232 |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections Division |
| Repository Collection | Children's Historical Literature Collection. QL41.T69 1608 |
| Object Type | Book
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| Physical Description | [12], 315, [9] p.: illustrated; 31.5 x 22.5 cm. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Photographed from original book in TIFF format using a Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi/EOS 400D, resized and enhanced using Adobe Photoshop, and imported as JPEG2000 using Contentdm's software JPEG2000 Extension. 2009. |
| Exhibit Checklist | Exhibit Checklist L.79 |
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