Stock Photo - Snake with plant tail, Zeld-saeme Snake. / anguis Singularis. / Serpent Extraordinaire (title on object), Wonderful snake with a tail from which a plant grows. Below the performance two manuscripts in Latin about the performance, indicating the discovery of this snake by Bubulco Croata in the year 1547. Part of the seventh album with drawings of reptiles, amphibians and natural history ensembles. The seventh of twelve albums with watercolors of animals, birds and plants, known around 1600, commissioned by Emperor Rudolf II. With explanations in Dutch, Latin and French, snakes, fabulous animals, snakes (aspic, tarragon, hydrus, hydra, amphisbaena, horned snake, cerastes), Anselmus Boetius de Boodt, Praag, 1596 - 1610, paper, pencil, chalk, watercolor (paint), deck paint, ink, pen, h 270 mm × w 184 mm