Conradi Gesneri medici Tigurini Historiæ animalium liber IIII. Qui est de Piscium & aquatilium animantium natura. Cum iconibus singulorum ad uiuum expressis fere omnib. DCCVI. Continentur in hoc uolumine Gulielmi Rondeletij quoq[ue] medicinæ professoris regij in Schola Monspeliensi et Petri Bellonij Cenomani, medici hoc tempore Lutetiæ eximij, de aquatilium singulis scripta

Gesner, Conrad · 1558 · Tiguri , Apud Christoph. Froschouerum -- MDLVIII · 66 pictures

A 1558 natural history of fishes and aquatic animals by the Swiss physician Conrad Gesner, printed in Zurich by Christoph Froschauer for naturalists and physicians. Its woodcut pictures show single fish drawn from life in profile, with spiny fins, scaled bodies and forked tails, each set against a faint printed text block that gives the page a plain scholarly look a designer could borrow for botanical-style layouts.

Bibliothèque du Collège de pharmacie

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