Snakes. Illustration from a famous 18th-century work of reference, edited by Albertus Seba, a Dutch pharmacist and collector of zoological and other natural subjects (circa 1735)
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Albertus Seba, XVIIIth century
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Albertus Seba, XVIIIth century
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Albertus Seba, XVIIIth century
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Albertus Seba, XVIIIth century
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Blue snake from Mark Catesby’s Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands (1731-1743) [700x497]

Rattle snake from Mark Catesby’s "Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands" (1731-1743)
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Cat snake from Mark Catesby’s "Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands" (1731-1743)
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Mark Catesby. From “Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands” (1731-1743)
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Mark Catesby. From “Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands” (1731-1743)
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Illustration of a Caiman crocodilus and an Anilius scytale (1701-1705) by Maria Sibylla Merian
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Johann Daniel Meyer, 1748
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Johann Daniel Meyer, 1748
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Baldo Angelo Abbati, 1603
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Baldo Angelo Abbati, 1603
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Scientific drawings of snakes; Snakes in art. (1856-1858)
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Scientific drawings of snakes; Snakes in art. (1856-1858)
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This page comes from Book 14 of the 4th edition of Meyers Konversationslexikon (1885-90)
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Ilustration of Historia Naturalis Brasiliae, of Guilherme Piso (Guilielmi Pisonis), 1648
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Ilustration of Historia Naturalis Brasiliae, of Guilherme Piso (Guilielmi Pisonis), 1648
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Ilustration of Historia Naturalis Brasiliae, of Guilherme Piso (Guilielmi Pisonis), 1648
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Head of garter snake. The Popular Science Monthly (1892)
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Scull of garter snake. The Popular Science Monthly (1892)
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Port Natal python. Popular Science Monthly, 1873-1874;   Drawing of a rattlesnake (Crotalus adamanteus s. durissus) from 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
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Pierre Jacques Smit. Drawing of a viper (Atheris squamigera) from Encyclopædia Britannica, 1911
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Pierre Jacques Smit. Drawing of the krait (Echis carinata), a viper of India, Encyclopædia Britannica, 1911
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Cobra woodcut. Routledge's Picture Natural History by the Rev. J. G. Wood engraved by the Dalziel brothers,1885.
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Cobra. Illustration from "On The Genesis of Species" by St. George Jackson Mivart, 1871
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"Die Gartenlaube", Ernst Keil's Nachfolger, Leipzig, 1871
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Drawing of ringed boa from Popular Science Monthly, 1873-1874
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Fer de lance. The Popular Science Monthly (1873-74)
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Northern rattlesnake. The Popular Science Monthly (1873-74)
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Cobra de capello. The Popular Science Monthly (1873-74)
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Horned puff adder. The Popular Science Monthly (1873-74)
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Common adder. The Popular Science Monthly (1873-74)
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Small viperine snake. The Popular Science Monthly (1873-74)
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Grass snake.  The Popular Science Monthly (1873-74)
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Old garter snake. The Popular Science Monthly (1892-93)
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Fer de lance. The Popular Science Monthly (1899)
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Vipera berus. Walter Heubach (German, 1865–1923)
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Frontispiece of a reprint volume, published in 1883, of the second edition of the work ''Brehms Thierleben''.
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From the "Bestiarium" of Aloys Zötl, 1867
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Indian grey mongoose and cobra. Illustration by Louis Sargent (1909) from Frank Finn's "Wild Beasts of the World"
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