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Blainville 1846 Osteographie

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“R.bicornis [male] 1/3. – Werner et Delahaye del. – Lith. de Becquet.” Plate depicting a skull of a black rhinoceros obtained by Pierre Antoine Delalande (1787-1823) in South Africa in 1820. From Blainville, Osteographie, Atlas, vol. 3, p. 3. – This image is illustrated and placed in historical context in Rookmaaker, 2008. Encounters with the African Rhinoceros, fig. 31

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