1st Edition
History of Four Footed Beasts and Serpents and Insects Volume 2 Serpents
First Published in 1967. This is volume two of three of The History of Four- footed Beasts taken principally from the ‘ Historite Animalium’ of Conrad Gesner. During the first decade of the seventeenth century, when Topsell prepared his translation, zoology had just become a science. It has a unique place: It was the first major book on animals printed in Great Britain in English; and it appeared at the last moment in history when all zoological knowledge since antiquity could be summarized sympathetically, before it was rendered a curiosity by the many new discoveries soon to come.
Of the Creation and First Beginning of Serpents; Of the Natural Generation of Serpents, and Their Several Originals; Of the Names of Serpents, and Their Several Parts of Anatomy; Of the Quantity of Serpents, and Their Abode, Food, and Other Accidents; Of the Inward Disposition of Serpents, and of Their Concord and Discord with Other Creatures; Of the Friendship al1d Enmity Which Serpents Keep with Other Creatures; Of the Medicines Made and Taken Out of Serpents; Of the Way to Drive Away Serpents. Of Their Poyson and Bitings; A Certain and Sure Way to Cure Those Who Either Have Been Poysoned, Invenomed, or Bitten by Them; The Conclusion of This General Discourse of Serpents, Listings from 'Of the Adder' to 'Of the Viper'.
Biography
Edward Topsell
