Sperm whale or cachalot, Physeter macrocephalus, top and bottom, and narwhale, Monodon monoceros. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Jacques de Seve from James Smith Barrs edition of Comte Buffons Natural History, A Theory of the Earth, General History of Man, Brute Creation, Vegetables, Minerals, T. Gillet, H. D. Symonds, Paternoster Row, London, 1807.
Sperm whale or cachalot, Physeter macrocephalus, top and bottom, and narwhale, Monodon monoceros. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Jacques de Seve from James Smith Barrs edition of Comte Buffons Natural History, A Theory of the Earth, General History of Man, Brute Creation, Vegetables, Minerals, T. Gillet, H. D. Symonds, Paternoster Row, London, 1807.