history of four-footed beasts and serpents and insects.
By: With a new introd. by Willy Ley.
Contributors: Gesner, Konrad, 1516-1565.; Moffett, Thomas, 1553-1604.
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 1967
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1130
Subjects: Zoology -- Pre-Linnean works
Notes: "An unabridged republication of the 1658 edition published in London ... reproduced from a copy in the Rare Book Collection of the Library of the American Museum of Natural History."
Table of contents: value: v. 1.  The history of four-footed beasts, taken principally from the Historiae animalium of Conrad Gesner, by E. Topsell.-  v. 2.  The history of serpents, taken principally from the Historiae animalium of Conrad Gesner, by E. Topsell.-  v. 3.  The theater of insects [translation of Insecticum sive minimorum animalium theatrum] by T. Muffet.