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Curious woodcuts of fanciful and real beasts : a selection of 190 sixteenth-century woodcuts from Gesner's and Topsell's natural histories

Publication Data

Title Curious woodcuts of fanciful and real beasts : a selection of 190 sixteenth-century woodcuts from Gesner's and Topsell's natural histories
Contributors Konrad Gesner, Edmund Vincent Gillon, Edward Topsell
Publisher Dover Publications
Publication date 1971
Publication location New York
Language English

Descriptive Notes

Originally published in Gesner's 'Historia animalium'. Zurich: Froschauer, 1551-1563.

Topics

Animals in art
Animals, Mythical, in art
Wood-engraving, Renaissance

Catalogue Data

OBNB ID GB7129380
ISBN 10 0486227014
ISBN 13 n/a
Type BibliographicResource, Book
Dewey Classification 769.9

ISBD

P1053

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Curious woodcuts of fanciful and real beasts : a selection of 190 sixteenth-century woodcuts from Gesner's and Topsell's natural histories. ISBN 0486227014. Published by Dover Publications in 1971. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.