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Gessner, Conrad, Forer, Conrad [Übers.], Froschauer, Christoph [Bearb.] · 1583 · 73 pictures

Thierbuch is a 1583 German natural history of four-footed animals, land and water, compiled by Conrad Gessner in Forer's translation and published by Froschauer in Zurich for artists, physicians, painters, carvers, hunters and cooks. Its woodcuts show single animals in profile on bare ground, with the text set around them in the page, and a designer could take from them the plain, consistent poses of early modern animal studies, useful as stencils for simple livestock or creature drawings.

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