The history of four-footed beasts and serpents : describing at large their true and lively figure, their several names, conditions, kinds, virtues ... countries of their breed, their love and hatred to mankind, and the wonderful work of God in their creation, preservation, and destruction : interwoven with curious variety of historical narrations out of Scriptures, fathers, philosophers, physicians, and poets : illustrated with divers hieroglyphicks and emblems ... : collected out of the writings of Conradus Gesner and other authors /