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A crocodile, a gigantic fish and an animal that eats flying fish. Gouache painting. 

A crocodile with other reptiles on the bank of a river. Etching by A. Collaert, 16--.

An unusual degree of tolerance ... Paynocil : the Egyptian plover.

Scientific instruments and attributes of philosophy: gyroscopes, telescope, pestle and mortar, cosmological manuals, natural history specimens etc.. Lithograph by J-B-J. Jorand, 1835.

A crocodile emerging from the Zambezi river and biting off a woman's leg. Chromolithograph, 18--.

A crocodile in Egypt. Etching.

Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: interior of a reconstruction of a seventeenth-century English apothecary's shop. Photograph.

A crocodile controlled by a female devil to give her sexual pleasure by applying its mouth to her vagina. Gouache painting.

Parasites: a parasitical worm, shown much enlarged, with its hosts. Gouache painting by J. Svoboda after L.W. Sambon.

Three types of lizard and a crocodile. Engraving, ca. 1778.

A hippopotamus standing in the water biting the tail of a crocodile. Woodcut after C. Gessner.

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Three types of lizard and a crocodile. Engraving, ca. 1778.

A hippopotamus standing in the water biting the tail of a crocodile. Woodcut after C. Gessner.

Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: interior of a reconstruction of a seventeenth-century English apothecary's shop. Photograph.

A crocodile with other reptiles on the bank of a river. Etching by A. Collaert, 16--.

A crocodile in Egypt. Etching.