The historie of serpents, or, The second booke of liuing creatures : wherein is contained their diuvine, naturall, and morall descriptions, with their liuely figures, names, conditions, kindes and natures of all venemous beasts : with their seuerall poysons and antidotes, their deepe hatred to mankind, and the wonderfull worke of God in their creation, and destruction : necessary and profitable to all sortes of men / collected out of diuine scriptures, fathers, phylosophers, physitians, and poets, amplified with sundry accidentall histories, hierogliphicks, epigrams, emblems, and aenigmaticall obseruations by Edward Topsell.

Seen in various states, with different settings of 2E3; in this copy, 2E3v, line 18, reads: "waters, as in a Boate".
Includes indexes.