Identified in book as, FROM TOP: Hippopotamus. Hippopotamus amphibius. A sea sheep. Three varieties of sea dog. After an illustration by Mirza Baqir in a 19th century Iranian book of Greek physician and botanist Pedanius Dioscorides's 1st century AD work De Materia Medica.

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