Conrad Gesner - First Issue - Cockerel, Chicken, Rooster, bird - Hand coloured folio - 1557

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Selected by Volker Riepenhausen

Folio from the first German edition of Conrad Gesner's Vogelbuch Zurich: Christopher Froschauer, 1557. FIRST ISSUE!!! 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. Fine hand colour. Condition: Some age spotting to left margin. Light age toning. Some marginal surface stains. Please view the images carefully.

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Conrad Gesner - First Issue - Cockerel, Chicken, Rooster, bird - Hand coloured folio - 1557

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Folio from the first German edition of Conrad Gesner's Vogelbuch

Zurich: Christopher Froschauer, 1557. FIRST ISSUE!!!

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. Fine hand colour.

Condition: Some age spotting to left margin. Light age toning. Some marginal surface stains. Please view the images carefully.

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Selected by Volker Riepenhausen

Estimate € 200 - € 250

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