Conradi Gesneri medici Tigurini Historiae animalium liber IIII. qui est De piscium & aquatilium animantium natura. Cum iconibus singulorum ad uiuum expressis fere omnib. DCCVI. Continentur in hoc volumine, Gulielmi Rondeletii quoq[ue] medicinae professoris regij in Schola Monspeliensi, & Petri Bellonii Cenomani, medici hoc tempore Lutetiae eximij, de aquatilium singulis scripta.
Conrad Gessner (1516-1565)
Category
Books
Date
1558
Materials
Place of origin
Zurich
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3204489
Summary
Bibliographic description
[40], 1297, [3] p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; fol. Running number: 5859. Shelved and uniform with vol. 1 'De quadrupedibus uiuiparis' (1551), vol. 3 'De auium natura' (1585), 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 number/code in sixteenth-century[?] hand on front pastedown: "26 [] op". Manuscript capital letter on front fly-leaf: "D". Binding: sixteenth-century full calf; wooden boards; worm damage; 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), author Pierre Belon (1517-1564), author Guilaume Rondelet (1507-1566) , author William Turner (d.1568)., writer Albrecht Dürer (Nuremberg 1471 – Nuremberg 1528), illustrator Lukas Schan, illustrator