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Conrad Gesner [Konrad Gessner] 1516-1565 - Hogfish, Scarus, Ichthyology folio with 3 large woodcuts - 1557 - 1557
Nr 83768575
Nr 83768575
Superb folio from an early German edition of Conrad Gesner's Vogelbuch
2 large woodcuts to recto and verso of one folio leaf.
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.
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