The historie of foure-footed beastes
Subtitle: describing the true and liuely figure of euery beast, with a discourse of their seuerall names, conditions, kindes, vertues (both naturall and medicinall), countries of their breed, their loue and hate to mandkinde, and the wonderfull worke of God in their creation, preseruation, and destruction : necessary for all diuines and students, because the story of euery beast is amplified with narrations out of scriptures, fathers, phylosophers, physitians, and poets : wherein are declared diuers hyerogliphicks, emblems, epigrams, and other good histories, collected out of all the volumes of Conradus Gesner, and all other writers to this present day
By: by Edward Topsell.
Contributors: Jaggard, William, 1569-1623, printer.; Gesner, Konrad, 1516-1565.; English Printing Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed by William Iaggard
Published: 1607
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 757
Subjects: Zoology -- Pre-Linnean works; Mammals -- Early works to 1800; Monsters -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Pre-Linnean works.; Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Topsell's hist. of foure footed beastes; History of four-footed beasts
Notes: LC copy has inscription on t.p.: Francis Cleaver. 1662=. Inscription on p. [758]: Bibliothecae Gilberti Walonesley.
STC (2nd ed.) 24123
Title vignette: The gorgon.
Errors in pagination.
Signatures: A⁶ [par.]⁶ 2[par.]⁸ chi² B-2V⁶ 3A-3X⁶ 3Y⁸.
Includes indexes in multiple languages.
LC copy imperfect: first and last leaves (blank) wanting; pages trimmed with some loss of ill.