Conrad Gesner - Terns, Seabirds, Ornithology. Folio with 2 hand colored woodcuts - 1582
Nº 81854935
Conrad Gesner [1516-1565], Konrad Gessner - Polyporum, Octopus, Marine animals, folio with large hand colored woodcuts - 1557
Nº 81854935
Conrad Gesner [1516-1565], Konrad Gessner - Polyporum, Octopus, Marine animals, folio with large hand colored woodcuts - 1557
Superb folio from an early German edition of Conrad Gesner's Fischbuch
Zurich: Christopher Froschauer, 1557 (this state ca 1582).
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. Light, even, age toning.
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