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Conrad Gesner - First Issue - Lapwing, wading bird - Hand coloured folio - 1557
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Conrad Gesner - First Issue - Lapwing, wading bird - Hand coloured folio - 1557

Ilaria Colombo
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Selected by Ilaria Colombo
Superb folio from the first German edition of Conrad Gesner's Vogelbuch Zurich: Christopher Froschauer, 1557. FIRST ISSUE!!! 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. Fine hand colour. Condition: Some fingering to margins. A few surface stains and some minor age toning. Please view the images carefully.

No. 102261331

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Conrad Gesner - First Issue - Lapwing, wading bird - Hand coloured folio - 1557

Conrad Gesner - First Issue - Lapwing, wading bird - Hand coloured folio - 1557

Superb folio from the first German edition of Conrad Gesner's Vogelbuch

Zurich: Christopher Froschauer, 1557. FIRST ISSUE!!!

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. Fine hand colour.

Condition: Some fingering to margins. A few surface stains and some minor age toning. Please view the images carefully.

Final bid
€ 88
No reserve price
Ilaria Colombo
Expert
Selected by Ilaria Colombo
Estimate  € 180 - € 220

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