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• Vlyssis Aldrovandi Patricii Bononiensis Serpentvm et draconv[m] historiae libri dvo (Apud Clementum Ferronium : sumptibus M. Antonii Bernie ..., 1640), by Ulisse Aldrovandi, Francis Willughby, Alexander Grant Ruthven, John Knott, Albert May Todd, and Bartolommeo Ambrosini (page images at HathiTrust)
• An essay towards a natural history of serpents, by Charles Owen (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Flying serpent, or, Strange news out of Essex being a true relation of a monstrous serpent which hath divers times been seen at a parish called Henham on the Mount within four miles of Saffron-Walden : showing the length, proportion and bigness of the serpent, the place where it commonly lurks, and what means hath been used to kill it : also a discourse of other serpents, and particularly of a cockatrice killed at Saffron-Walden / the truth of thi[s] relation of the serpent is attested, by [brace] Richard Jackson ... [et al.]. (London : Printed and sold by Peter Lillicrap ..., [1669?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• De serpente aeneo basilicae Ambrosianae Mediolani (Ex typographia Francisci Vigoni, 1675), by Pietro Paolo Bosca and Francesco Vigone (page images at HathiTrust)

• An essay towards a natural history of serpents, by Charles Owen (Gutenberg ebook)

• An essay towards a natural history of serpents, by Charles Owen (Gutenberg ebook)

• De serpente aeneo basilicae Ambrosianae Mediolani (Ex typographia Francisci Vigoni, 1675), by Pietro Paolo Bosca and Francesco Vigone (page images at HathiTrust)

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• The Gipsies : as illustrated by John Bunyan, Mrs. Carlyle, and others. And do snakes swallow their young? (J. Miller; [etc., etc.], 1883), by James Simson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois reques de la nature... : Ophiologie. (Chez Pankoucke, 1790), by abbé Bonnaterre (page images at HathiTrust)
• The classification of the Ophidia. ([Philadelphia], 1895), by E. D. Cope (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ophidians, zoological arrangement of the different genera, including varieties known in North and South America, the East Indies, South Africa, and Australia. (Boericke & Tafel, 1873), by Silvestre B. Higgins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Snakes: curiosities and wonders of serpent life. (Griffith & Farran;, 1882), by Catherine Cooper Hopley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life- history of British serpents and their local distribution in the British Isles (W. Blackwood and Sons, 1901), by Gerald R. Leighton (page images at HathiTrust)
• An essay towards a natural history of serpents. (Printed for the author, 1742), by Charles Owen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ophidia taprobanica; or, The snakes of Ceylon (H.R. Cottle, govt. printer, 1921), by Frank Wall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les venins : les animaux venimeux et la sérothérapie antivenimeuse. (Masson et cie, 1907), by A. Calmette (page images at HathiTrust)
• La défense contre l'ophidisme (Impr. Pocai-Weiss, 1914), by Oswaldo Vital Brazil and J. Maibon (page images at HathiTrust)
• The poisonous snakes of the new world (New York zoological society, 1944), by Clifford H. Pope and New York Zoological Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Axial bifurcation in serpents; an historical survey of serpent monsters having part of the axial skeleton duplicated (Duke university press, 1937), by Bert Cunningham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Iconographie générale des ophidiens par m. le professeur Jan ... ([de Soye & Bouchet, imprimeurs], 1800), by G. Jan (page images at HathiTrust)
• A general consideration of snake poisoning and observations on neotropical pit-vipers (Harvard University press, 1925), by Afrânio do Amaral (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prodrome de la classification des reptiles ophidiens. Mémoire lu dans la séance du 2 novembre 1852 (Typographie de Firmin Didot frères, 1853), by C. Duméril (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essay on the physiognomy of serpents (Maclachlan, Stewart, and company, 1843), by H. Schlegel and Thomas Stewart Traill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Studies of neotropical colubrinae. VIII. A revision of the genus Dryadophis Stuart, 1939 (University of Michigan press, 1941), by L. C. Stuart (page images at HathiTrust)
• I. A further study of variation in the gopher-snakes of western North America. II. Description of a new species of rattlesnake (Crotalus lucasensis) from Lower California. III. Description of a new subspecies of boa (Charina bottae utahensis) from Utah. IV. Description of a new lizard (Dipsosaurus dorsalis lucasensis) from Lower California (The Academy, 1920), by John Van Denburgh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Discussions on the Gipsies, John Bunyan and Mrs. Carlyle, and many others related to, or connected with, the Gipsies, but boycotted in Europe, from a feeling of caste, in 1882-1890, and "Do snakes swallow their young?" With the "Encyclopædia britannica on the viper," in 1883-1889, and somewhat similarly treated. (E.O. Jenkins' son, 1895), by James Simson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Authorized facsimile reproduction of the Dissection of the ophidian (General Biological Supply House, 1938), by David Simons Kellicott (page images at HathiTrust)
• The way of a serpent (a popular account of the habits of snakes) (R. M. McBride and Company, 1938), by Thomas Haining Gillespie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Morsura serpentum (Upsaliæ, 1762), by Carl von Linné and Johan Gustaf Acrel (page images at HathiTrust)
• The dragon in China and Japan. (J. Müller, 1913), by Marinus Willem de Visser (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the serpents of New York; with a notice of a species not hitherto included in the fauna of the state. (C. Van Benthuysen, 1854), by Spencer Fullerton Baird (page images at HathiTrust)
• Untersuchungen über die giftwerkzeuge der schlangen ... (Gedruckt bei L. F. Fues, 1843), by Wilhelm Ludwig von Rapp and Johann Jakob Bächtold (page images at HathiTrust)
• De organis motoriis boae caninae ... (C.A. Platen, 1815), by Friedrich Ludwig Huebner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zulia : Ligeras observaciones y apuntamientos sobre las serpientes. ([Imprenta Bolívar], 1883), by Aristídes Garbíras (page images at HathiTrust)
• Om draken eller lindormen. Mémoire till Kongl. Vetenskaps-akademien. (Wexiö, 1884), by Gunnar Olof Hyltén-Cavallius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Antivenomous serum-therapeutics. (J. Bale, sons & Danielsson, 1908), by A. Calmette and E. E. Austen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Uber Verschiedene neue oder seltene Reptilien aus Neu-Granada und Crustaceen aus China ... Vorgelesen in der Sitzung der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften am 2ten August 1845. (Dieterichschen Buchhandlung, 1846), by Arnold Adolphe Berthold (page images at HathiTrust)
• Truth about snake stories (Field Museum of Natural History, 1929), by Karl Patterson Schmidt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Filles, lorettes et courtisanes--Les serpents (Calmann Lévy, 1896), by Alexandre Dumas (page images at HathiTrust)
• A list of reptiles and amphibians collected by Louis Garni in the vicinty of Boerne, Texas (Baylor University Press, 1926), by John Kern Strecker and Louis Garni (page images at HathiTrust)
• Snake venoms, an investigation of venomous snakes with special reference to the phenomena of their venoms (Carnegie institution of Washington, 1909), by Hideyo Noguchi (page images at HathiTrust)
• The common snakes of India and Burma and how to recognize them (Pioneer Press, 1914), by W. H. Cazaly (page images at HathiTrust)
• The twelve wonders of England,: being a strange and wonderful relation of the death of Mr. Parrey, an inn-keeper, living at the sign of the Bell at Temple-bar; and the manner how twelve serpents vvere voided from him a little before his death on Thursday last, some having heads like toads and horses, and others like neuts and dogs, to the great admiration of all that shall read the ensuing subject. Together vvith a narrative of his life and death, his memento and character to all Christians; and other memorable examples of most strange and wonderful prodigies. (London : Printed for G. Horton, 1655), by Edward Reyner (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The mythical serpents of Hebrew literature (s.n., 1900), by Ross G. Murison (page images at HathiTrust)

• The snakes of Australia. (T. Richards, government printer, 1869), by Gerard Krefft (page images at HathiTrust)

• A general consideration of snake poisoning and observations on neotropical pit-vipers (Harvard University press, 1925), by Afrânio do Amaral (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anexos das Memórias do Instituto de Butantan. Secçāo de Ofiologia. Vol. I. fasc. 1. (Comp. Melhoramentos de S. Paulo, 1921), by Instituto Butantan. Secçāo de Ofiologia and Afranio do Amaral (page images at HathiTrust)

• The common snakes of India and Burma and how to recognize them (Pioneer Press, 1914), by W. H. Cazaly (page images at HathiTrust)

• Grundzüge einer Ökologie der chinesischen Reptilien und einer herpetologischen Tiergeographic Chinas. (W. de Gruyter, 1929), by Rudolf Mell (page images at HathiTrust)

• A case study in conservation science : the spatial ecology and evolutionary history of the coachwhip snake (Masticophis flagellum) and striped racer (M. lateralis) (2006), by Milan Jovan Mitrovich, Davis University of California, and San Diego State University (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Dragon in China and Japan, by Marinus Willem de Visser (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Länsi-Suomen käärmeen loitsut. (Turku, 1906), by Johan Wilhelm Juvelius (page images at HathiTrust)

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