The 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: title: v. 1. The history of four-footed beasts, taken principally from the Historiae animalium on Conrad Gesner, by E. Topsell.; title: v. 2. The history of serpents, taken principally from the Historiae animalium of Conrad Gesner, by E. Topsell.; title: v. 3. The theater of insects [translation of Insectorum sive minimorum animalium theatrum] by T. Muffet.