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Curious woodcuts of fanciful and real beasts ; a selection of 190 sixteenth-century woodcuts from Gesner's and Topsell's natural histories / [by] Konrad Gesner.

Gesner, Konrad, 1516-1565, author.; Topsell, Edward, 1572-1625?; Dobbs, Betty Jo Teeter, 1930- former owner.
1971
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Title
Curious woodcuts of fanciful and real beasts ; a selection of 190 sixteenth-century woodcuts from Gesner's and Topsell's natural histories / [by] Konrad Gesner.
Created/published
New York : Dover Publications, [1971]
Description
111 p. : ill. ; 31 cm
Associated name
Gesner, Konrad, 1516-1565, author.
Topsell, Edward, 1572-1625?
Dobbs, Betty Jo Teeter, 1930- former owner.
Series statement
Dover pictorial archives series
Note
"The picture selection and layout are by Edmund V. Gillon, Jr. The Publisher's Note, captions (based on the original texts) and Index of Animals were prepared specially for this edition"--tp. verso.

Includes index.
Series
Dover pictorial archive series.
Place of creation/publication
United States -- New York (State) -- New York.

Call number
NE962.A5 G3 1971
Folger-specific note
Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs copy.

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