Leonhard Fuchs / Albrecht Meyer / Heinrich Füllmaurer - Large folio with 2 large woodcuts recto & verso: Catnip & Fleabane - 1543
No. 81854335
Conrad Gesner [Konrad Gessner] 1516-1565 - Galjoen, Coracinus fish, marine life, folio with 2 woodcuts - 1557
No. 81854335
Conrad Gesner [Konrad Gessner] 1516-1565 - Galjoen, Coracinus fish, marine life, folio with 2 woodcuts - 1557
From Gesner's FIRST EDITION of the FISCHBUCH, 1558.
Woodcuts leaf.
Zurich: Christopher Froschauer, 1558.
Reference: Nissen Fischbuch 59.
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. Later hand colour.
Light even age toning.
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