'Figure d'un Elephant' Size:S: 50 x 40cm (1813-1883)

(1813-1883)

It is fitted with a foot-operated bell instead of a horn

Map of Aldgate Ward

causes the young man acute embarrassment

'Figure d'un Elephant' Size:S: 50 x 40cm (1813-1883)Figure of an elephant, viewed from the side. In discussing the elephant the author compares the tusks of elephants with the supposed horns of unicorns. Illustration from Discours d'Ambroise Pare a scavoir, de la mumie, de la licorne, des venins, et de la peste, avec une table des plus notables matieres contenues esdit discours (chez Gabriel Buon, Paris, 1582), f. 23. Ambroise Par (c. 1510 1590) was a French barber surgeon and anatomist who served