Conradi Gesneri medici Tigurini Historiae animalium liber IV
Subtitle: qui est De piscium & aquatilium animantium natura : cum iconibus singulorum ad viuum expressis ferè omnibus DCCXII
Contributors: Rondelet, Guillaume, 1507-1566; Belon, Pierre, 1517?-1564; Cambier, Andreas, publisher; Schmarda, Ludwig K. (Ludwig Karl), 1819-1908, former owner; National Zoological Park (U.S.)
Edition: Editio secunda, / nouis iconibus, necnon obseruationibus non paucis auctior, atque etiam multis in locis emendatior.
Publisher: In Bibliopolio Andreae Cambieri
Published: 1604
Place of publication: Francofurti
Language: lat
Number of pages: 1052
Subjects: Zoology; Pre-Linnean works; Early works to 1800; Mollusks; Fishes
Other titles: De aquatilibus; De piscium & aquatilium animantium natura; De piscium et aquatilium animantium natura; Historiae animalium liber IV
Work titles: Historia animalium. Liber 4.
Notes: Title page vignette (Mustela) also used on p. 605.

Head- and tail-pieces; initials; side-notes.

"Continentur in hoc volumine, Gulielmi Rondeletii quoque medicinae professoris regij in schola Monspeliensi, & Petri Bellonij Cenomani, medici hoc tempore Lutetiae eximij, de aquatilium singulis scripta. Paralipomena quaedam ad finem adiecta sunt."

The numbers 809-828 are repeated in the pagination sequence with different text. Pages 64, 65, 76, 126, 264, 289, 322, 336, 342, 359, 476, 480, 507, 539, 540, 606, 964, 991, 20 and 37 misnumbered 60, 63, 62, 130, 263, 288, 242, 426, 344, 369, 466, 408, 508, 514, 542, 605, 974, 990, 10 and 38 respectively.

Signatures: a-b⁶ *⁸ A-4T⁶ 4V⁸ a-b⁶ c⁴(- c₄) d⁴; leaves I4 and 2nd b1 signed [lamda]4 and B respectively.

Includes indexes.

Enumeratio authorum: p. [19]-[22] (1st group).

Wellisch, H. Conrad Gessner, 26.2

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SCNHRB copy 39088016899775 is stamped on t.p.: National Zoological Park; overstamped: Cancelled; written in ink: 488.

SCNHRB copy is stamped on verso of t.p.: Ludwig K. Schmarda; Smithsonian National Zoological Park Institution [overstamped] Cancelled; Smithsonian Institution Aug 23 1944 National Museum [in red] 326594.

SCNHRB copy has worm holes slightly affecting the text on leaves from gatherings 3V and 3Y; there is a smal hole in p. 773-774 (leaf 3T3). Many text leaves are heavily foxed. The final leaf has been reinforced with a stiffer sheet of paper on the blank verso side.

SCNHRB copy has some dried and pressed botanical specimens found in the volume (a flower similar to a daffodil found between p. 974 and 975; some other small plant pieces found between p. 706 and 707) transferred to archival envelopes and laid in.

SCNHRB copy has an old gilt-tooled, tree-stained full leather binding with raised bands, marbled endpapers, and all edges gilt. Housed in a later linen-covered box with printed spine label.