Exotic animals.- Serpent, Alive. The Great Boa Constrictor, To be seen for a short time...at Wombwell's Menagerie, ink inscription "Mrs Welchman Died Nov 21. was Buried Dec 1st. 1815" to fore-edge, printing flaw to fore-edge affecting few words, light creasing, tipped onto card mount, handbill 157 x 180mm., Bennett, [c.1815] § At the Colonnade, Golden Cross, Charing Cross. A Most Extraordinary Marine Animal...has so many Heads, that they are completely incalculable, but probably amounting to several Thousands..., tipped onto card mount, handbill 190 x 113mm., G. Smeeton, March 1818 [dated by hand in ink to head] § Just arrived from India, and the Great Atlantic and Pacific Oceans...the Astonishing Hammer-Headed Shark...various Esquimaux Curiosities, to which is added the extraordinary Phenomenon of Nature, Two United Indian Children..., some marginal fraying and short tears but no text loss, creased and lightly soiled, 130 x 180mm., Handy, [19th century], printed handbills; and other animal related handbills, v.s. (9)
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