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<dl><dd>Title page vignette ("De crocodilo terrestri, aegyptiaco vel arabico") also appears on p. 23</dd>
<dd>Pages 22 and 78 are misnumbered 25 and 87, respectively</dd>
<dd>Includes indexes</dd>
<dd>Signatures: *⁴ A-K⁶</dd>
<dd>Leaf *4 (p. [7]-[8], 1st group) is blank</dd>
<dd>citation/reference: Wellisch, H. Conrad Gessner, 24.2</dd>
<dd>additional physical form: Also available online</dd>
<dd>action: extracted picklist 20081216 BHLEX</dd>
<dd>Wellisch, H. Conrad Gessner</dd>
<dd>extracted picklist</dd>
<dd>SCNHRB and SCDIRB have one copy each</dd>
<dd>SCNHRB copy 39088016899387 is imperfect: the blank leaf *4 (p. [7]-[8], 1st group) is wanting</dd>
<dd>SCNHRB copy has bookseller's printed label on front paste-down endpaper: Aus C.E. Haessler's Magazin wohlfeiler gebundener Bücher. Hamburg. Neuenwall 142</dd>
<dd>SCNHRB copy is stamped on t.p.: National Zoological Park; overstamped: Cancelled; written in ink: 486</dd>
<dd>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</dd>
<dd>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)</dd>
<dd>SCNHRB copy is bound with: Gessner, C. Historia animalium. Liber V, qui est De serpentium natura. Tiguri : In officina Froschouiana, MDLXXXVII [1587] -- Gessner, C. Nomenclator aquatilium animantium. Heidelbergae : E Typographeio Iohannis Lancelloti : Impensis Andreae Cambieri, anno MDCVI [1606]</dd>
<dd>SCDIRB copy 39088016899429 has ownership inscription of Count Joannes Josephus Inzaghi on t.p. dated 1692; binding stamped with initials I.F.D.E and date 1599 on front cover</dd>
<dd>SCDIRB copy has bookplate: Burndy Library ... gift of Bern Dibner</dd>
<dd>SCDIRB copy has a contemporary binding of blind-tooled full alum-tawed pigskin over wooden boards, stamped on the front and back with allegorical female figures; raised bands; metal clasps; and blue edges. Housed in a modern archival paperboard portfolio with reddish-brown paste-paper spine</dd>
<dd>SCDIRB copy is bound with: Historia animalium. Liber III, qui est De auium natura. Francofurdi : Ex officina typographica Ioannis Wecheli : Impensis Roberti Cambieri, 1585</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Pre-Linnean works; Early works to 1800; Zoology; Amphibians; Reptiles</div>
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Gessner, Conrad, 1516-1565</div>
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