Conrad Gesner [1516-1565], Konrad Gessner - Larks, ornithology, folio with 2 large hand coloured woodcuts - 1582
No. 83775163
Conrad Gesner - Hound Shark, Thresher Shark, Ichthyology, folio with large hand colored woodcut - 1557
No. 83775163
Conrad Gesner - Hound Shark, Thresher Shark, Ichthyology, folio with large hand colored woodcut - 1557
Superb folio from an early German edition of Conrad Gesner's Fischbuch
Zurich: Christopher Froschauer, 1557.
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. 2 illuminated initials.
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