Conradi Gesneri Tigurini medici & philosophiae professoris in schola Tigurina, Historiae animalium liber III., qui est de auium natura : adiecti sunt ab initio indices alphabetici decem super nominibus auium in totidem linguis diuersis, & ante illos enumeratio auium eo ordine quo in hoc volumine continentur.

Conradi Gesneri Tigurini medici & philosophiae professoris in schola Tigurina, Historiae animalium liber III., qui est de auium natura : adiecti sunt ab initio indices alphabetici decem super nominibus auium in totidem linguis diuersis, & ante illos enumeratio auium eo ordine quo in hoc volumine continentur.

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Gessner, Conrad, 1516-1565, author.
Uniform title:	Historia animalium. Liber 3. De avium natura.
Imprint:	Tiguri : Apud Christoph. Froschouerum, anno MDLV [1555]
Description:	[36], 779, [1] pages : illustrations (woodcuts), portrait (woodcut) ; 40 cm (folio)
Language:	Latin
Subject:	Birds -- Early works to 1800. Zoology -- Early works to 1800. Birds. Early works. Woodcuts Annotations (Provenance) Sammelbands (Provenance) Underscoring (Provenance)
Format:	Print Book
Local Note:	Copy 3: University of Chicago Library's copy imperfect: lacking pages [35]-[36], first sequence, and pages 509-512, 707-708, 743-744; pages 283-284 torn with some loss of text. Copy 3: University of Chicago Library's copy is number 1 of 2 titles bound together; bound with: Gessner, Conrad. Conradi Gesneri medici Tigurini Historiae animalium liber II. de quadrupedibus ouiparis. Tiguri : Excudebat C. Froschouerus, 1554. Discovery of this item made possible by a gift from Julie and Roger Baskes.
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11459659

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Varying Form of Title:	Historiae animalium liber III., qui est de auium natura
Other authors / contributors:	Froschauer, Christoph, 1532-1585, printer.
Provenance:	Copy 3: Former owners' manuscript annotations in at least 3 hands; underscoring; some annotations partially trimmed on fore-edge. Copy 3: Illustration on page 225 hand colored by former owner.
Notes:	Signatures: [superscript pi]a-c⁶ a-z⁶ A-2T⁶. Title vignette (printer's device); initials. Pages [35]-[36], first sequence, and last leaf blank. Includes errata (pages 778-779). Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachbereich erschienenen Drucke des XVI. Jahrhunderts (VD 16), entry G 1730 Nissen, C. Illustrierten Vogelbücher, 349

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