Icones animalium quadrupedum uiuiparorum et ouiparorum
Subtitle: quae in Historiae animalium Conradi Gesneri libro I. et II. describuntur, cum nomenclaturis singulorum latinis, graecis, italicis, gallicis, et germanicis plerunque, et aliarum quoque linguarum, certis ordinibus digestae
Contributors: Gessner, Conrad, 1516-1565; Froschauer, Christoph, d. 1564, printer
Edition: Editio secunda / nouis eiconibus non paucis, & passim nomenclaturus ac descriptionibus auctior. ... 
Publisher: Excudebat C. Froschouerus
Published: 1560
Place of publication: Tiguri
Language: lat; fre; gre; ger; ita
Number of pages: 127
Subjects: Zoology; Early works to 1800; Reptiles; Pre-Linnean works; Mammals; Amphibians
Other titles: Icones animalium quadrupedum viviparorum et oviparorum
Work titles: Icones animalium quadrupedum
Notes: "Accedunt et indices secundum diuersas linguas in fine libris."

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Side-notes; initials.

Errata: p. [6] (2nd group).

"Ad lectorem" (referring to Icones avium and Nomenclator aquatilium animantium): p. [8] (2nd group).

Signatures: A-KL3a.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Wellisch, H. Conrad Gessner, 29.2

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SCNHRB copy 39088016899650 has an old illegible handwritten inscription in ink on the t.p., crossed through; also a handwritten collational note in pencil.

SCNHRB copy is bound with: Gessner, C. Icones auium omnium. Editio secunda. Tiguri : excudebat C. Froschouerus, anno MDLX [1560] -- Gessner, C. Nomenclator aquatilium animantium. Tiguri : excudebat Christoph. Froschouerus, anno MDLX [1560]. Possibly issued together.

SCNHRB copy has a modern burgundy full leather binding with raised bands. Housed in a linen-covered box with printed blue paper spine labels. The leather-covered boards from the earlier (original?) binding were retained after rebinding and are contained in a paper portfolio in a compartment of the linen-covered box.