Conrad Gesner [1516-1565], Konrad Gessner - Flamingo & mythological Phoenix, ornithology, sheet with 2 hand coloured woodcuts - 1669
N.º 84859949
Conrad Gesner [1516-1565], Konrad Gessner - Moorhens, Waterbirds, ornithology, folio with 2 large hand coloured woodcuts - 1582
N.º 84859949
Conrad Gesner [1516-1565], Konrad Gessner - Moorhens, Waterbirds, ornithology, folio with 2 large hand coloured woodcuts - 1582
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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