Conrad Gesner [Konrad Gessner] 1516-1565 - Hogfish, Scarus, Ichthyology folio with 3 large woodcuts - 1557 - 1557
Αρ. 84259815
Conrad Gesner [1516-1565], Konrad Gessner - Eider Duck, ornithology, folio with large hand coloured woodcuts - 1582
Αρ. 84259815
Conrad Gesner [1516-1565], Konrad Gessner - Eider Duck, ornithology, folio with large hand coloured woodcuts - 1582
Superb folio from an early German edition of Conrad Gesner's Vogelbuch
Zurich: Christopher Froschauer, 1557 (this state ca 1582).
Reference: Nissen 350.
Conrad Gessner was a Renaissance polymath, a physician, philosopher, encyclopaedist, bibliographer, philologist, natural historian and illustrator.
The woodcuts for the work were undertaken by Hans Asper, Johann Thomas, and Lukas Schrön.
Fine 16th century folio. Later hand colour. Small marginal clean tear neatly backed.
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