today, one of my favourite books which only comes by once every few years (like a badly drawn comet): the "Description of Three Hundred Animals", featuring the Ant Bear, which is "big as a pretty large dog"

the sketchiest Raccoon I've ever seen in my life which he describes as "very prejudicial to poultry"

shine on, my chicken hating bandit friend

the Indian manticore, which is very unruly, and he advises that in order to tame it you must beat it firmly on the buttocks

the Allocamelus, which lives in Peru and pees backwards (I kid you not)

the Bear Ape, who 'does not seem wet, tho' he has been long in the rain'

indeed

I don't really know what a Camelopardal is because he describes it as being a bit like a panther and idk about you but I am not 100% convinced

Sin Beaver knows what you did

lest we forget the Foolish Sparrow which seems a bit harsh but okay I'm not the scientist here

full frontal whale

something that is almost but not quite entirely unlike a shark

dragon(?)

anyway I could do this all day but duty calls elsewhere, the last one we had didn't even get on the shelves before some monster bought it but at least I got good pictures this time https://sotherans.co.uk/products/boreman-thomas-a-description-of-above-three-hundred-animals-viz-beasts-birds-fishes-and-insects-with-a-partic

..aaaaaand its gone
well
it almost made it 24 hours this time

another victory for twitter-marketing