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Conrad Gesner [1516-1565], Konrad Gessner - Wryneck (Jynx), ornithology, folio with hand coloured woodcut - 1582
Nº 84576579
Nº 84576579
From Gesner's FIRST EDITION of the FISCHBUCH, 1557.
2 woodcuts to one leaf (recto and verso).
Zurich: Christopher Froschauer, 1557.
Reference: Nissen.
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. Later hand colour.
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