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Vogelbuch by Conrad Gessner Facsimile Edition

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The Vogelbuch is the first German adaptation of Conrad Gessner's encyclopedic study of birds, printed by Christoph Froschauer in Zurich in 1557. Rudolf Hüsli translated and condensed Gessner's Latin Historia animalium for a German-speaking readership. Arranged alphabetically, its entries gather names, descriptions, observations, and inherited knowledge concerning birds and other flying animals. More than two hundred woodcuts, many strikingly naturalistic, make the volume an important monument of Renaissance zoology and demonstrate the central role of images in Gessner's investigation of the animal world.

We have 1 facsimile edition of the manuscript "Vogelbuch by Conrad Gessner": Conrad Gessner. Vogelbuch facsimile edition, published by Josef Stocker-Schmid, 1969

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Conrad Gessner. Vogelbuch

Dietikon-Zürich: Josef Stocker-Schmid, 1969

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  • Full-size color reproduction of the entire original document, Vogelbuch 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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