Curious Woodcuts of Fanciful and Real Beasts: A Selection of 190 Sixteenth-Century Woodcuts from Gesner's and Topsell's Natural

by Konrad Gesner and Conrad Gessner

Book Overview

The magnum opus of versatile Renaissance humanist Konrad Gesner was undoubtedly his 4-volume 'Historia animalium,' first published in the mid-16th century. It brought together all that Renaissance man... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486227014
• ISBN13: 9780486227016
• Release Date: January 1971
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 111 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 9.0" x 12.0"