Gallery›Wellcome Collection›Anatomy of snakes: eight figures, including scales, a fang, the tails of a boa and a columber snake, and the heads of three species, including a rattle snake, all shown with open jaws. Line engraving after a drawing by S. Edwards (?), 1809.
Anatomy of snakes: eight figures, including scales, a fang, the tails of a boa and a columber snake, and the heads of three species, including a rattle snake, all shown with open jaws. Line engraving after a drawing by S. Edwards (?), 1809.
Wellcome Collection

Anatomy of snakes: eight figures, including scales, a fang, the tails of a boa and a columber snake, and the heads of three species, including a rattle snake, all shown with open jaws. Line engraving after a drawing by S. Edwards (?), 1809.

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Lettering: Comparative anatomy ; Carinated scale of boa ; plain scale ; fang ; tail of coluber ; tail of boa ; head of innoxious snake ; head of poisonous snake. Bears number: Pl. LXVIII.

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