Conrad Gesner. Line engraving, 1666.

Conrad Gesner. Line engraving by T. de Bry.

Philosophers and virtuosi: twenty portraits. Engraving by J.W. Cook, 1825.

Conrad Gesner. Woodcut, 1565.

Conrad Gesner. Mezzotint by J. J. Haid, 1747.

Conrad Gesner. Process print after C. Meyer, 1662.

Quatre livres des secrets de medecine et de la philosophie chimique / Faicts françois par M. Jean Liebault ... Esquels sont descrits plusieurs remedes singuliers poru toutes maladies tant interieures qu'exterieures du corps humain ... les manieres de destiller eaux, huyles, et quintes essences de toute sorte de matieres: faire les extractions, les sels artificiels, et l'or potable.

De stirpium, maxime earum, quae in Germania nostra nascuntur, usitatis nomenclaturis, propriisque, differentiis, neque non temperaturis ac facultatibus, commentariorum libri tres / germanica primum lingua conscripti, nunc in latinam conversi, interprete Davide Kybero. His accesserunt ... praefationes duae altera D. Conradi Gesneri ... rei herbariae scriptorum ... catalogum complectens: altera ipsius authoris, herbariae cognitionis laudes ... continens. Praeterea ... adjectus est Benedicti Textoris Segusiani de stirpum differentiis, ex Dioscoride secundum locos communes, libellus.

The newe jewell of health, wherein is contayned the most excellent secretes of phisicke and philosophie, devided into fower bookes. In the which are the best approved remedies for the diseases as well inwarde as outwarde, of all the partes of mans bodie: treating very amplye of all dystillations of waters, of oyles, balmes, quintessences ... Gathered out of the best and most approved authors / ... Faithfully corrected and published in Englishe, by George Baker, Chirurgian.

Icones animalium quadrupedum viviparorum et oviparorum quae in historia animalium / Conradi Gesneri libro primo et secundo describuntur, cum nomenclaturis singulorum latinis, graecis, italicis, gallicis et germanicis plerumque.

De omni rerum fossilium genere, gemmis, lapidibus, metallis, et hujusmodi, libri aliquot, plerique nunc primum editi ... / [Konrad Gesner].

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Some explanatory notes to Mr. H.M. Fraser's article about Moufet's Theatrum Insectorum / by Bernhard Milt.

Münchener Beiträge zur Geschichte und Literatur der Naturwissenschaften und Medizin

vii, 1 unnumbered page, 154 pages including frontispiece (port.) : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Konrad Gesner, Leben und Werk : mit VI Abbildungen / [Willy Ley].

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236 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 28 cm.

Conrad Gessner : 1516-2016 : Facetten eines Universums / Urs B. Leu, Mylene Ruoss (Herausgeber).

Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History.

Conrad Gessner : a bio-bibliography / by Hans (Hanan) Wellisch.

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Epistolarum medicinalium liber quartus, denuo recusus, adjecto ineditarum ejusdem epistolarum specimine / Cura Joannis Hanharti.

<p>The pictures of animals in the volumes of Historia animalium are arranged in systematic order. The first edition of this part was dedicated to Henry Gray, Duke of Suffolk, who however died before the book reached him. The second edition was dedicated to Queen Elizabeth If England</p>

A cercopithecus (a long-tailed monkey) holding a stick in its right hand. Woodcut after C. Gessner.

34 unnumbered leaves, 1,220 pages, 32 unnumbered leaves : woodcut illustrations & portrait ; (4to)

<p>The pictures of animals in the volumes of Historia animalium are arranged in systematic order. The first edition of this part was dedicated to Henry Gray, Duke of Suffolk, who however died before the book reached him. The second edition was dedicated to Queen Elizabeth I</p>

A vulture. Woodcut after C. Gessner.

A hippopotamus standing in the water biting the tail of a crocodile. Woodcut after C. Gessner.

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Gessner, Conrad, 1516-1565

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Conrad Gesner. Line engraving, 1666.

Some explanatory notes to Mr. H.M. Fraser's article about Moufet's Theatrum Insectorum / by Bernhard Milt.

Konrad Gesner, Leben und Werk : mit VI Abbildungen / [Willy Ley].

Conrad Gessner : 1516-2016 : Facetten eines Universums / Urs B. Leu, Mylene Ruoss (Herausgeber).

Conrad Gessner : a bio-bibliography / by Hans (Hanan) Wellisch.

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Gessner, Conrad, 1516-1565

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Conrad Gesner. Line engraving, 1666.

Some explanatory notes to Mr. H.M. Fraser's article about Moufet's Theatrum Insectorum / by Bernhard Milt.

Konrad Gesner, Leben und Werk : mit VI Abbildungen / [Willy Ley].

Conrad Gessner : 1516-2016 : Facetten eines Universums / Urs B. Leu, Mylene Ruoss (Herausgeber).

Conrad Gessner : a bio-bibliography / by Hans (Hanan) Wellisch.

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