R.L. Stevenson - Island Nights' Entertainments - 1893
N.º 82394641
Conrad Gesner [Konrad Gessner] 1516-1565 - Sandpiper, Lesser Goose, Ornithology folio with 2 large woodcuts - 1557
N.º 82394641
Conrad Gesner [Konrad Gessner] 1516-1565 - Sandpiper, Lesser Goose, Ornithology folio with 2 large woodcuts - 1557
From Gesner's FIRST EDITION of the VOGELBUCH, 1582.
2 Woodcuts to one leaf (recto and verso).
Zurich: Christopher Froschauer, 1582.
Reference: Nissen.
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.
A few minor marks to margin.
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