Author:Conrad Gesner
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Swiss naturalist and bibliographer
Conrad Gesner
Works[edit]
- Catalogus plantarum (1542)
- Historiae animalium (1551-1587)
- 1. De qadrupedibus viviparis (1551)
- 2. De qadrupedibus oviparis (1554)
- 3. Qui est de avium natura (1555)
- 4. Qui est de piscium et aquatilium animantium natura (1558)
- 5. De serpentium natura (1587) (posthumous)
- Icones animalium quadrupedum viviparorum et oviparorum (1553)
- De balneis (1553)
- The Treasure of Euonymus (1559), translated by Peter Morvvying
- Nomenclator aquatilium animantium (1560)
- The history of four-footed beasts and serpents (1658), edited by Edward Topsel
- "collected out of the writings of Conradus Gesner and other authors"
Works about Gesner[edit]
- Bay, Jens Christian (1916), "Conrad Gesner (1516–1565), the Father of Bibliography" in Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 10: 53–58. (external scan)
- Reprinted separately as Conrad Gesner, the Father of Bibliography (1916).
- "Gesner, Konrad von," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1928, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.
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