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 /
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| Format: | Microform Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | The whole revised, corrected and inlarged / |
| Series: | Early English books, 1641-1700 ;
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| Item Description: | Volume 1 is largely a translation of books 1 and 5 of: Historia animalium / Konrad Gesner, with additions by Topsell. The second part has title: The history of serpents, or, The second book of living creatures / Edward Topsell. Volume 2, a translation of Insectorum sive minimorum animalium theatrum, has title: The theatre of insects, or, Lesser living creatures / T. Moffett. Reproduction of original in Yale University Library. Microform. |
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| Physical Description: | 2 volumes : illustrations |