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Gessner, C. 1553. Icones animalium quadrupedum viviparorum et oviparorum, quae in Historia Animalium Conradi Gesneri describuntur, cum nomenclaturis singulorum latinis, italicis, gallicis et germanicis plerumque, per certos ordines digestae. Tiguri, C. Froschoverus. pp. 1-64, i-iii.

Icones animalium quadrupedum viviparorum et oviparorum, quae in Historia Animalium Conradi Gesneri describuntur, cum nomenclaturis singulorum latinis, italicis, gallicis et germanicis plerumque, per certos ordines digestae

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Location South Asia Subject Captivity Species Greater One-horned Rhino (unicornis)

Engraving (after Albrecht Durer) of first Lisbon rhinoceros.

Note
Location South Asia Subject Captivity Species Greater One-horned Rhino (unicornis) Year 1553

Latine Rhinoceros, vel taurus Aethiopicus Pausaniae. Rhinocerotos nomen graecis in linguis aliis, plerisque feruatur. Latine dici posset Naricornis. German Nashorn.

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Ridpath, J.C. 1895. Ridpath’s universal history, vol. 2. Cincinnati, Jones Brothers .
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