Conr. Gesneri Tigurini medicinæ et philosophiae professoris in Schola Tigurina, Historiæ animalium liber II : qui est de quadrupedibus ouiparis

Gessner, Conrad, 1516-1565, Schmarda, Ludwig K. (Ludwig Karl), 1819-1908, former owner. DSI, National Zoological Park (U.S.), former owner. DSI · 1586 · Francofurdi : Ex officina typographica Ioannis Wecheli : Impensis Roberti Cambieri · 27 pictures

A 1586 Latin zoological treatise by Conrad Gessner, a Zurich physician and professor, printed at Frankfurt by Johann Wechel for Robert Cambier, covering egg-laying quadrupeds for scholars and naturalists. The woodcuts show fish and fish-like creatures drawn in side or profile views with fine parallel hatching, giving a designer a model of early modern engraved line work and cross-hatched shading.

Zoology

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