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GESNER, CONRAD. 1516-1565.:Vogelbuch. Zurich: Christoffel Froschouwer, 1581.
BOUND WITH: Schlangenbuch. Zurich: Froschouwer, 1589.
2 works in 1 volume. Folio (375 x 237 mm). Numerous woodcut illustrations of birds and snakes in text. Modern quarter morocco and marbled boards. Large area of first title page torn away and repaired with loss to text at top corner; margins somewhat trimmed, dampstaining through upper corners, browning and spotting, old ink underlining and a few notations.
Third German edition of Vogelbuch and second German edition of Schlangenbuch (which also includes a section on scorpions), volumes 3 and 5 of Gesner\’s Historia animalium. Gesner was a true renaissance man, who succumbed to the plague at the age of 49. His works were \”a great step forward and remained the most authoritative zoological book[s] between Aristotle and the publication of Ray\’s classification of fauna in 1693\” (PMM 77). Nissen IVB 350; Nissen ZB 1557 (second title); Staedtke Gessner 1516-1565, p 154;
康拉德州盖斯纳。1516-1565. 鸟书。苏黎世：Christoffel Froschouwer，1581年。