![GESNER, Conrad (1516-1565). Thierbuch; das ist, ausfuhrliche Beschreibung...aller vierfussigen Thieren. Heidelberg: Johann Lancellot for Andreas Cambier, 1606. [Bound with:] – Vogelbuch. Frankfurt: Johann Saur for heirs of Robert Cambier, 1600. [And:] – Fischbuch. Frankfurt: Johann Saur for heirs of Robert Cambier, 1598. [And:] – Schlangenbuch. Heidelberg: Johann Lancellot for Andrea Cambier, 1613.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2019/CKS/2019_CKS_17700_0273_001(gesner_conrad_thierbuch_das_ist_ausfuhrliche_beschreibungaller_vierfus120453).jpg?w=1)
![GESNER, Conrad (1516-1565). Thierbuch; das ist, ausfuhrliche Beschreibung...aller vierfussigen Thieren. Heidelberg: Johann Lancellot for Andreas Cambier, 1606. [Bound with:] – Vogelbuch. Frankfurt: Johann Saur for heirs of Robert Cambier, 1600. [And:] – Fischbuch. Frankfurt: Johann Saur for heirs of Robert Cambier, 1598. [And:] – Schlangenbuch. Heidelberg: Johann Lancellot for Andrea Cambier, 1613.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2019/CKS/2019_CKS_17700_0273_002(gesner_conrad_thierbuch_das_ist_ausfuhrliche_beschreibungaller_vierfus123133).jpg?w=1)
![GESNER, Conrad (1516-1565). Thierbuch; das ist, ausfuhrliche Beschreibung...aller vierfussigen Thieren. Heidelberg: Johann Lancellot for Andreas Cambier, 1606. [Bound with:] – Vogelbuch. Frankfurt: Johann Saur for heirs of Robert Cambier, 1600. [And:] – Fischbuch. Frankfurt: Johann Saur for heirs of Robert Cambier, 1598. [And:] – Schlangenbuch. Heidelberg: Johann Lancellot for Andrea Cambier, 1613.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2019/CKS/2019_CKS_17700_0273_003(gesner_conrad_thierbuch_das_ist_ausfuhrliche_beschreibungaller_vierfus123142).jpg?w=1)
![GESNER, Conrad (1516-1565). Thierbuch; das ist, ausfuhrliche Beschreibung...aller vierfussigen Thieren. Heidelberg: Johann Lancellot for Andreas Cambier, 1606. [Bound with:] – Vogelbuch. Frankfurt: Johann Saur for heirs of Robert Cambier, 1600. [And:] – Fischbuch. Frankfurt: Johann Saur for heirs of Robert Cambier, 1598. [And:] – Schlangenbuch. Heidelberg: Johann Lancellot for Andrea Cambier, 1613.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2019/CKS/2019_CKS_17700_0273_000(gesner_conrad_thierbuch_das_ist_ausfuhrliche_beschreibungaller_vierfus123122).jpg?w=1)
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GESNER, Conrad (1516-1565). Thierbuch; das ist, ausfuhrliche Beschreibung...aller vierfussigen Thieren. Heidelberg: Johann Lancellot for Andreas Cambier, 1606. [Bound with:] – Vogelbuch. Frankfurt: Johann Saur for heirs of Robert Cambier, 1600. [And:] – Fischbuch. Frankfurt: Johann Saur for heirs of Robert Cambier, 1598. [And:] – Schlangenbuch. Heidelberg: Johann Lancellot for Andrea Cambier, 1613.
Collected zoological works of Gesner, in German, in a contemporary binding. The first work is the third abridged edition of the first 2 volumes of Historiae animalium, on quadrupeds, translated from the Latin by Conrad Forer (or Forrer, d.1594), correspondent with Gesner. The ornithology is the third edition of the abridged translation executed by Rudolf Heusslein, a Swiss physician. The final work on serpents is the second edition of the Jacob Carron translation in which the section on scorpions has its own title-page. Nissen ZBI 1552, 1555, 1557; Nissen IVB 351; Wellisch A 23/24.6, 25.7, 26.5, 27.5.
4 works bound in one volume, folio (370 x 235mm). Titles printed in red and black, very numerous woodcuts, some full-page (title to first work with marginal chip repaired and with large marginal chip to s4; M5 in second work with small marginal chip due to paper flaw, occasional light spotting). Contemporary blindstamped pigskin with central panel of Justice holding a sword and scales (rubbed). Provenance: Jo: Ja: Neyenburg (ownership inscription on title dated 1636) – ‘Erkauft v. J. Jak. Sulzer Reichert. Ao. 1815’ (purchase inscription on front pastedown).
Collected zoological works of Gesner, in German, in a contemporary binding. The first work is the third abridged edition of the first 2 volumes of Historiae animalium, on quadrupeds, translated from the Latin by Conrad Forer (or Forrer, d.1594), correspondent with Gesner. The ornithology is the third edition of the abridged translation executed by Rudolf Heusslein, a Swiss physician. The final work on serpents is the second edition of the Jacob Carron translation in which the section on scorpions has its own title-page. Nissen ZBI 1552, 1555, 1557; Nissen IVB 351; Wellisch A 23/24.6, 25.7, 26.5, 27.5.
4 works bound in one volume, folio (370 x 235mm). Titles printed in red and black, very numerous woodcuts, some full-page (title to first work with marginal chip repaired and with large marginal chip to s4; M5 in second work with small marginal chip due to paper flaw, occasional light spotting). Contemporary blindstamped pigskin with central panel of Justice holding a sword and scales (rubbed). Provenance: Jo: Ja: Neyenburg (ownership inscription on title dated 1636) – ‘Erkauft v. J. Jak. Sulzer Reichert. Ao. 1815’ (purchase inscription on front pastedown).
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