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Snall poster advertising Clara 1747

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Poster sold during the tour of Clara, the Dutch rhinoceros in the 1740s. The last sentence of the text states the measurements and weight of the animal in May 1747 in Leipzig.
This copy of the small poster is in the copy of the Zurich Library bound with the description of the rhino by James Parsons (Parsons, J., 1747. Die Natürliche Historie des Nashorns, welche von Doctor Parsons in einem Schreiben an Martin Folkes, Rittern und Praesidenten der Koniglich-Englischen Societat, abgefasset, mit zuverlaessigen Abbildungen versehen. Nürnberg)

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