Conrad Gesner (1516-1565) - Sandgrouse, Bird - Hand coloured folio with large woodcut, 1558 (1582)
No. 82396647
Conrad Gesner (1516-1565) - Vinaio Waalia, Bruce’s Green Pigeon, Dove, ornithology, hand coloured folio with woodcuts, 1582
No. 82396647
Conrad Gesner (1516-1565) - Vinaio Waalia, Bruce’s Green Pigeon, Dove, ornithology, hand coloured folio with woodcuts, 1582
Superb woodcut folio from Gessner's German edition of Icones animalium quadrupedum uiuiparorum et ouiparorum.
Zurich: Christopher Froschauer, 1582.
Reference: Nissen.
Conrad Gessner was a Renaissance polymath, a physician, philosopher, encyclopaedist, bibliographer, philologist, natural historian and illustrator.
Fine cream 16th century folio. Later hand colour.
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