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File AvailableColin, A. 1619 Histoire des drogues, episceries, et de certains medicamens simples, qui naissent és Indes & en l'Amerique. Cette matiere comprise en six livres: dont il y en a cing tirés du Latin de Charles l'Escluse: & l'Histoire du Baulme adioustee de nouveau: où il est proué, que nous avons le vray Baulme d'Arabie, contre l'opinion des anciens & modernes. Le tout fidellement translaté en François, par Antoine Colin, maistre Aposicaire Iuré de la ville de Lyon. Lyon, aux despens de Iean Pillehotte, pp. [i-xvi], 1-369, [i-xv]
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[Full text in original language] B. Strabon, asseure avoir veu un Rhinocerot, la couleur duquel est sembable ? celle de l'Elephant, & non de buys (ia?oit que Pline livre 8 chapit 20 luy attribue telle couleur) de la grosseur d'un Taureau, de la forme d'un sanglier, principalement quand au museau,...
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File AvailableColin, A. 1619 Histoire des drogues, episceries, et de certains medicamens simples, qui naissent és Indes & en l'Amerique. Cette matiere comprise en six livres: dont il y en a cing tirés du Latin de Charles l'Escluse: & l'Histoire du Baulme adioustee de nouveau: où il est proué, que nous avons le vray Baulme d'Arabie, contre l'opinion des anciens & modernes. Le tout fidellement translaté en François, par Antoine Colin, maistre Aposicaire Iuré de la ville de Lyon. Lyon, aux despens de Iean Pillehotte, pp. [i-xvi], 1-369, [i-xv]
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[Full text in original language] Histoire du Rhinocerot. Le Rhinocerot est un animal grand, portant une corne au naseau, lequel mal-aisement se peut dompter. On tient qu'il s'en trouve plusieurs en Cambaya, pays fort voisin de Bengala, & en Patana & qu'ils sont appell?s par les habitans Gandas....
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File AvailableAugustin, A. 1617 Antiquitatum Romanorum Hispanarumque in nummis veterum, dialogi XI. Antverpiae, Henricum Aertssium, pp. i-xvi, 1-182, index, pls. 1-68
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[Full text in original language] ...quaeque de Rhinocerote, cuius unicum in narib. cornu est, quo inimicum necare solet, feruntur a Valerio Martiali. B. Huius belluae num in nummis vestigium apparet? A. Maxime, ut in numis Domitiani, & in signorum gemmis vidimus. Hippopotamo non est dissimilis...
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File AvailableCoryat, T. 1616 Travailler for the English Wits, and the good of his Kingdom: To all his inferiour countreymen, Greetings: Especially to the sirenicall gentlemen, that meets the first Friday of everie moneth at the Mermaids in Broadstreet From the Court of the Great M. London, [no publisher]
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[Full text in original language] (Visit of Great mogul jahangir at Ajmer) Hee keepeth abundance of wilde beasts, and that of divers sorts, as lyons, elephants, leopards, beares, antlops, unicornes; whereof two I have seene at his court, the strangest beasts of the world. They were brought hither...
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File AvailablePausanias; Xylandro, G.; Amaseus, R. 1613 Pausanias accurata graeciae descriptio, qua lector ceu manu per eam regionem circumducitur a Guilielmo Xylandro Augustano diligenter recognita & ab innumeris mendis repurgata Accesserunt annotationes - G Xylandro et Romuli Amasaei. Hanoviae, Wechelianis, apud haeredes Claudii Marnii, pp. [unpag], 1-899, indices
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[Full text in original language] Note by Romulo Amaseo to Pausanias, Liber IX. 32 - vidi etiam Aethiopicos tauros, quos ex re ipsa Rhinocerotas nominant, quod illis ex nare extrema cornu prominet: & paulo superius alterum, non sunt magnum: in capite nullum prorsus habent. Praeterea & Paemios tau...
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File AvailableCovarrubias, S. de 1611 Tesoro de la lengua Castellana, o Espanola. Madrid, Luis Sanchez, pp. i-xx, 1-602, 1-79
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[Full text in original language] BADA. Animal ferocissimo, dicho por otro nombre mas comun rhinocerote. En nuestros dias truxeron al rey Felipe II, que santa gloria aya, una Bada, que por mucho tiempo estuvo en Madrid; tenia asserrado el cuerno y estava ciega, porque no hiziesse dano: y curavan...
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File AvailableLinschoten, J.H.van 1610 Histoire de la navigation et de son voyages es Indes Orientales. Amstelredam, Henry Laurent
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Chapitre XLVII - De l'Abada ou Rhinoceros
(Rhinoceros ou se trouve & sa description) Il n'y a point d'Abada ou Rhinoceros es Indes, mais il s'en trouve en Bengala & Patana. Il est moindre que l'Elephant, porte une courte corne a...
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File AvailableShakespeare, W. 1610 Macbeth Act 3 Scene 4
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[Full text in original language] Macbeth addressing Banquo's ghost
What man dare, I dare,:
Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear,
the armed rhinoceros, or th'Hyracean tiger,
Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves
Shall never tremble, or be alive again
And da...
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File AvailableBartas, G. de Saluste du; Sylvester, J. 1608 His devine weekes and workes translated. London, H.Lownes, pp. 1-544
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[Edition of London, 1608, p. 145]

The sixth day of the first week.

But his huge strength nor subtle witt can not
Defend him from the sly Rhinocerot
Who never, with blinde furie led, doth venter
Upon his foe, but yer the Lists he enter
Against a rock he whetteth round abo...
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File AvailableTopsell, E. 1607 The history of four-footed beastes: describing the true and lively figure of every beast, with a discourse of their several names, conditions, kindes, vertues (both naturall and medicinall), countries of their breed, their love and hate to mankinde, and the wondefull worke of God in their creation, preservation and destuction. London, William Iaggard, pp. i-xli, 1-759, i-x
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[1607: 594;1658: 460]
Of the Rhinoceros.
We are now to discourse of the second wonder in nature, namely of a beast every way admirable, both for the outward shape, quantity, and greatness, and also for the inward courage, disposition and mildeness. For as the Elephant was the first wonder,...
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