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Thierbuch by Conrad Gessner Facsimile Edition

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The Thierbuch is the first German adaptation of Conrad Gessner's great zoological encyclopedia, printed by Christoph Froschauer in Zurich in 1563. Conrad Forer translated and abridged Gessner's Latin treatment of viviparous quadrupeds for a broader German-speaking readership. Organized around individual animals, the book combines inherited learning, practical and medical information, and observations of the natural world. Its numerous woodcuts make animals central to the reader's encounter with the text and exemplify the important role of printed images in Renaissance natural history.

We have 1 facsimile edition of the manuscript "Thierbuch by Conrad Gessner": Conrad Gessner. Thierbuch facsimile edition, published by Josef Stocker-Schmid, 1965

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Conrad Gessner. Thierbuch

Dietikon-Zürich: Josef Stocker-Schmid, 1965

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  • Full-size color reproduction of the entire original document, Thierbuch by Conrad Gessner: the facsimile attempts to replicate the look-and-feel and physical features of the original document; pages are trimmed according to the original format; the binding might not be consistent with the current document binding.

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