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Conradi Gesneri Tigurini medici & philosophiæ professoris in Schola Tigurina, Historiæ animalium liber III. qui est de auium natura : adiecti sunt ab initio indices alphabetici decem super nominibus auium in totidem linguis diuersis : et ante illos enumeratio auium eo ordine quo in hoc volumine continentur.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Folio QL673 .G38 1555
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gessner, Conrad, 1516-1565, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Historia animalium
- Language:
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Zoology--Pre-Linnean works.
- Zoology.
- Birds--Early works to 1800.
- Birds.
- Genre:
- Early works.
- Physical Description:
- [36], 779, [1] pages : illustrations ; 39 cm (fol.)
- Other Title:
- Conradi Gesneri Tigurini medici & philosophiæ professoris in Schola Tigurina, Historiæ animalium liber III. qui est de avium natura
- Historiæ animalium liber III. qui est de auium natura
- Historiæ animalium liber III. qui est de avium natura
- Fingerprint:
- r.m. o.a- ;)ne iuui (3) 1555 (R)
- Place of Publication:
- Tiguri : Apud Christoph. Froschouerum, anno MDLV [1555]
- Notes:
- Signatures: [superscript pi]a-c⁶ a-z⁶ A-2T⁶ (leaf [superscript pi]c6 blank).
- Woodcut initials and illustrations.
- Some illustrations attributed to Dürer; most illustrations attributed to Lukas Schau.
- Printed marginalia.
- Includes indexes.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center copy imperfect: leaves [superscript pi]a1 (title leaf), [superscript pi]a6, t2, x3, x4, R3, R4 and 2T4 wanting.
- Kislak Center copy has a few early manuscript marginal notes in brown ink in text; manuscript sketches (copies of illustrations) in pencil on leaves p1r and 2T5r; modern manuscript bibliographical notes in pencil on back pastedown.
- Kislak Center copy acquired for the Penn Libraries in 2017 from John Fuegi and Joanne Francis with assistance from the Allan G. Chester and Florence K. Chester Fund and with assistance from the George L. Murray Fund.
- Kislak Center copy: illustrations hand-colored.
- Kislak Center copy: portion of leaf t5 torn off and mended with a blank leaf with substantial loss of text; lower portion of leaf 2T6 torn off and mended with a blank leaf; occasional tears (some mended) in margins of leaves.
- Cited in:
- VD 16 G 1730
- OCLC:
- 43180081
- Online:
- The Allan G. Chester and Florence K. Chester Fund Home Page
- The George L. Murray Fund Home Page
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