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Author
Topsell, Edward, 1572-1625?
Title
The historie of foure-footed beastes. : Describing the true and liuely figure of euery beast, with a discourse of their seuerall names, conditions, kindes, vertues (both naturall and medicinall) countries of their breed, their loue and hate to mankinde, and the wonderfull worke of God in theircreation, preseruation, and destruction. Necessary for all diuines and students, because the story of euery beast is amplified with narrations out of Scriptures, fathers, phylosophers, physitians, and poets: wherein are declared diuers hyerogliphicks, emblems, epigrams, and other good histories, collected out of all the volumes of Conradus Gesner, and all other writers to this present day
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Publisher
London : Printed by William Iaggard
Description
44 unnumbered pages, 757 pages, 15 unnumbered pages : 32 cm (folio)
First word of title ("The") is xylographic
"A table of the names of all the beastes contayned in this hystory, in divers languages": 10 pages at end
Error in pagination: page 56 mis-numbered 59
Signatures: A⁶ [par.]⁶ 2[par.]⁸ *² B-2V⁶ 3A-3X⁶ 3Y⁸
The first and last leaf are blank
Largely a translation of book 1 of Gesner's Historia animalium, with additions by Topsell
Title page varies: with cut of hyena (used for sea wolf on p. 749) or of gorgon (most copies; not illustrated in the text pp. 262-3); examples of both at British Library. B1, 2, 5, 6 in 2 settings; B2r catchword: 'they'; B6r line 1: 'crowne' (Huntington Library) or 'gers' and 'Crowne' (Harvard). In some copies (one of the British Library copies, for example) there is an extra leaf after F4 with heading: 'The Picture of the vulger Bugill Folio 57.' (STC)

Subjects: Mammals; Zoology; Abnormalities, Severe Teratoid; Mammals; Monsters; Zoology
Language
eng
lat
Publication date 1607
publication_date QS:P577,+1607-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Current location
IA Collections: wellcomelibrary; ukmhl; medicalheritagelibrary; europeanlibraries
Accession number
b3033469x
Notes Copyright is on the title page.
Erratic pagination.
Authority file  OCLC: 1044299278
Source
Internet Archive identifier: b3033469x
https://archive.org/download/b3033469x/b3033469x.pdf
Permission
(Reusing this file)		 PDM This work is available under the Creative Commons, Public Domain Mark

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