Conr. Gesneri Tigurini, medicinae et philosophiae professoris in Schola Tigurina, Historiae animalium liber III. qui est De auium natura. Nunc denuo recognitus ac pluribus in locis emendatus, multisque nouis iconibus & descriptionibus locupletatus, ac denique breuibus in margine annotationibus illustratus, sicut plenius decima pagina indicabit. Adiecti sunt ad calcem libri indices alphabetici decem super nominibus auium in totidem linguis diuersis: & ante illos enumeratio auium eo ordine quo in hoc volumine continentur.
Conrad Gessner (1516-1565)
Category
Books
Date
1585
Materials
Place of origin
Frankfurt am Main
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3079005
Summary
Bibliographic description
[12], 806 [i.e. 804], [28] p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; fol. Running number: 5856. Shelved and uniform with vol. 1 'De quadrupedibus viviparis' (1551), vol. 4 'De piscium & aquatilium animantium natura' (1558), vol. 5 'De serpentium natura' (1587) and 'Icones animalium' (1560). Vol. 2 'De quadrupedibus oviparis' is listed in John Mitchell's original catalogue of the Ellys library, but is now missing (it is not listed in Miss O'Sullivan's 1940s shelflist). Provenance: manuscript capital letter on front fly-leaf: "D". Binding: sixteenth-century full calf; wooden boards; gilt single fillet border; gilt wreath centrepiece stamp; blind single fillet along board edges. Rebacked and repaired in brown goatskin.
Makers and roles
Conrad Gessner (1516-1565)