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Anonymous 1711. Advertisement [Sale of skin and skeleton of rhino by Thomas Evans]. The Post Boy, London 17-21 April 1711: [unknown].

Advertisement [Sale of skin and skeleton of rhino by Thomas Evans]

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Location Museums Species Greater One-horned Rhino (unicornis)

The skin and skeleton of a rhinoceros, exactly anatomiz’d and put together (being the only one that was ever brought into, or seen in England), now lying at Mr. Thomas Evans’s, a shipwright, near Cuckold’s Point in Rotherhith, is to be sold or let out to be shown: Enquir’ of the said Mr. Evans, or of Mr. John Barnet, at Mr. Martin’s, near Wapping-New-Stairs.

[The text was given by A.F.R., The first rhinoceros in England. Notes and Queries, series 11, vol. 3 (1911): 286.]

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