A woodcut illustration of a rhinocerous after Albrecht Dürer

A reversed copy of Albrecht Dürer's iconic 1515 woodcut of a rhinoceros, which was inspired with the arrival of the first rhino in Europe since Roman times. The animal's hide is depicted more like a suit of armour, with a gorget and a breastplate with apparent rivets along the seems. On the reverse are two more woodcuts: ''the Figure of the Beast called Haiit'', based on an early Spanish account of the Three-Toed Sloth; and an unnamed beast from thw writings of Leo Africanus, ''being round after the manner of a Tortoise'', with four eyes and ten legs, ''encompassed with many feet, by whose help he can go any way he please without turning of his body''. The print appeared in 'Of Monsters and Prodigies', Book 25 of the 29 published in 'The workes of that famous chirurgion Ambrose Parey'. Paré (c.1510-90) was a French barber surgeon, considered one of the fathers of surgery.