Nomenclator aquatilium animantium : Icones animalium in mari et dulcibus aquis degentium plus quam DCC. cum nomenclaturis singulorum Latinis, Graecis, Italicis, Hispanicis, Gallicis, Germanicis, Anglicis, alijsq́ue interdum, per certos ordines digestae ... / per Conradum Gesnerum ..

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Notes

"This edition was published and bound together with the third editions of Icones animalium and Icones avium. That seems to have been the reason for the designation 'third edition' although no second edition had been published"--Wellisch.

Page [277] has a special half-title for "tomus II": Tomus II. libri nomenclatoris aquatilium animantium in suos ordines digestorum, cum picturis eorundem ad uiuum expressis. Continet autem ut prior tomus marina, ita hic quae in dulcibus aquis (fluuijs, lacubus, & alijs) degunt animalia ...

Title page vignette (Mustela).

Side-notes; initials.

Pages 247 and 344 misnumbered 347 and 443 respectively.

Signatures: 2a⁶ 2b⁸ A-Z⁶ a-g⁶ h⁸.

Leaf Z6 is blank.

Includes indexes.

Wellisch, H. Conrad Gessner, 31.2

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SCNHRB copy has bookseller's printed label on front paste-down endpaper: Aus C.E. Haessler's Magazin wohlfeiler gebundener Bücher. Hamburg. Neuenwall 142.

SCNHRB copy is stamped on t.p.: National Zoological Park; overstamped: Cancelled; written in ink: 486.

SCNHRB copy is stamped on verso of t.p.: Ludwig K. Schmarda; Smithsonian National Zoological Park Institution [overstamped] Cancelled; Smithsonian Institution National Museum, Aug 23 1944, accession number [in red written over in black pencil] 326592.

SCNHRB copy has an old gilt-tooled, tree-stained full leather binding with raised bands, marbled endpapers, and all edges gilt. Housed in a modern linen-covered box with printed brown paper spine label (the date "1602" was printed on the spine label in error).

SCNHRB copy is bound with: Gessner, C. Historia animalium. Liber II, qui est De quadrupedibus ouiparis. Francofurdi : Ex Officina typographica Ioannis Wecheli, impensis Roberti Cambieri, MDLXXXVI [1586] -- Gessner, C. Historiae animalium Lib. V, qui est De serpentium natura. Tiguri : In Officina Froschouiana, MDLXXXVII [1587]. Bound together subsequent to publication.

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Data Source

Smithsonian Libraries

Date

1606

Anno MDCVI [1606]

Call number

QL41 .G39h liber 2 1586

QL41.G39h liber 2 1586

Author

Gessner, Conrad 1516-1565

printer

Lancelot, Johann d. 1619

publisher

Cambier, Andreas

former owner

Schmarda, Ludwig K (Ludwig Karl) 1819-1908 DSI

National Zoological Park (U.S.) DSI

bookseller

C.E. Haessler (Firm) DSI

Type

Pictorial works

Early works to 1800

Pre-Linnean works

Physical description

[28], 374, [2] p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 37 cm. (fol.)

Title

Icones animalium in mari et dulcibus aquis degentium

Topic

Aquatic animals

Marine animals

Fishes

Zoology

Record ID

siris_sil_401605

Usage

CC0