Front cover image for 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

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

Edward Topsell (Author), William Jaggard (Printer), Conrad Gessner, Joseph G. Gall (Former owner), William Walters Sargant (Former owner), W. Blake (Former owner), Joseph G. Gall 2006 Revocable Trust (Donor)
Print Book, English, 1608
Printed by William Jaggard, London, 1608