The history of four-footed beasts and serpents describing at large their true and lively figure, their several names, conditions, kinds, virtues ... countries of their breed, their love and hatred to mankind, and the wonderful work by Edward Topsell ; whereunto is now added, The theater of insects, or, Lesser living creatures ... by T. Muffet ...
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The history of four-footed beasts and serpents describing at large their true and lively figure, their several names, conditions, kinds, virtues ... countries of their breed, their love and hatred to mankind, and the wonderful work by Edward Topsell ; whereunto is now added, The theater of insects, or, Lesser living creatures ... by T. Muffet ...
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Topsell, Edward, 1572-1625?
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London :: Printed by E. Cotes for G. Sawbridge ... T. Williams ... and T. Johnson ...,
1658.
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Zoology -- Pre-Linnean works.
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"The history of four-footed beasts and serpents describing at large their true and lively figure, their several names, conditions, kinds, virtues ... countries of their breed, their love and hatred to mankind, and the wonderful work by Edward Topsell ; whereunto is now added, The theater of insects, or, Lesser living creatures ... by T. Muffet ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A42668.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 14, 2024.
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The Figure of the ELK with Horns.
[illustration]
This Beast is called in Greek, Alke; and in Latine, Alces, or Alce; which was a name of one of Actae∣ons* 1.1 Dogs in Ovid: the Turks, Valachians, the Hungarians, Iajus; the Illyrians and Polonians, Los; in the singular, and plurally, Lossie, for many Elks. Albertus Magnus calleth it Alches and Aloy, and after∣ward Equicervus, a Horse-Hart. The Germans, Elch, Ellend, and Elent, by a Metathesis of Alke, or Alce:* 1.2 and for my part I take it to be the same Beast which Pliny calleth Machlis, for there is nothing attributed to an Elk which also doth not belong to Machlis.