1551 HISTORIA ANIMALIUM by CONRAD GESSNER antique ILLUSTRATED 16th century FOLIO

Conradi Gesneri
medici Tigurini Historiae animalium liber primus de quadrupedibus viuiparis : opus philosophis, medicis, grammaticis, philologis, poe¨tis, & omnibus rerum linguarumq´ue variarum studiosis, vtilissimum simul iucundissimumq´ue futurum

by Gessner, Conrad

Folio. Size 9 1/2 by 14 3/4 inches

Illustrated with about 200 woodcuts

Binding destroyed, textblock broken

Good condition of pages except some occasional wormholes

Text in Latin
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Historiæ animalium ( Latin ) or History of Animals , is a zoological cataloguewritten by Conrad von Gesner and published in Zurich between 1551 and 1587.
Conrad Gessner (Latin: Conradus Gesnerus;[1516 – 1565) was a Swiss physician, naturalist, bibliographer, and philologist.
Born into a poor family in Zurich, Switzerland, his father and teachers quickly realised his talents and supported him through university, where he studied classical languages, theology and medicine.
He became Zürich's city physician, but was able to spend much of his time on collecting, research and writing.
Gessner compiled monumental works on bibliography (Bibliotheca universalis 1545–1549) and zoology (Historia animalium 1551–1558) and was working on a major botanical text at the time of his death from plague at the age of 49.
He is regarded as the father of modern scientific bibliography, zoology and botany.
He was frequently the first to describe species of plants or animals in Europe, such as the tulip in 1559.
A number of plants and animals have been named after him.
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