Conradi Gesneri Tigurini medicinae et philosophiae professoris in Schola Tigurina, Historiae animalium Lib. V : qui est De serpentium natura : ex varijs schedis et collectaneis eiusdem compositus

Title Variants

Alternative: De serpentibus
Alternative: De serpentium natura
Alternative: Historiae animalium Lib. V
Uniform: Historia animalium

Related Titles

Related/Analytical: De scorpione
Related/Analytical: Historiae insectorum libellus

By

Gessner, Conrad, 1516-1565

Carronus, Jacob,
Wolf, Hans Kaspar, 1532-1601
Officina Froschouiana, , publisher

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

Tiguri, In officina Froschouiana, MDLXXXVII [1587]

Notes

De scorpione has separate t.p., foliation, and signatures; t.p. reads: Conradi Gesneri Tigurini medicinae et philosophiae professoris in Schola Tigurina, Historiae insectorum libellus : qui est De scorpione / per Casparum Volphium Tigurinum medicum ex relicto schedarum fasciculo methodicè collectus & in lucem editus. Tiguri : In officina Froschouiana, 1587.

"This part, on snakes, was published posthumously by Gessner's friends Carronus and Wolf from his notes. Gessner had also planned a sixth part, on insects, but only his notes on the scorpion remained and were appended to this volume"--Wellisch.

Title page vignette (elaborate frog device with initials I.A.)

Foliated leaves, printed on both sides.

Initials; side-notes.

Leaf 24 is misnumbered as 23.

Signatures: *⁶ a-n⁶ o⁸ A⁴ B⁸.

Leaves o8 and B8 are blank.

Includes indexes.

Wellisch, H. Conrad Gessner, | 27.1

Subjects

Dragons , Early works to 1800 , Pre-Linnean works , Scorpions , Serpents , Snakes , Zoology

Call Number

QL41 .G39h liber 4, 1558

Language

Latin

Identifiers

OCLC: 16236748