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Sturgeons (Froschauer 1558)

Part of Set of illustrations to Gessner's Historia animalium (Froschauer) ⛁

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  • Two species of sturgeon (De Acipensere - Sturionum has duas icones Venetijs nactus sum, inferiorem Moronam nominant). In Conrad Gessner, Conradi Gesneri medici Tigurini Historiae Animalium Liber IIII: qui est de Piscium & Aquatilium animantium natura, Zürich: Christoph Froschauer (printer), 1558 (Warsaw, BN), p. 7 ◼
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  • Set of illustrations to Gessner's Historia animalium (Froschauer) ⛁
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Sturgeons (Froschauer 1558). Part of Set of illustrations to Gessner's Historia animalium (Froschauer)

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  • ⇥ Cristoforo Coriolano (printmaker), Sturgeons (Tebaldini) (Bologna, Biblioteca Universitaria di Bologna). Part of Set of animals for Aldrovandi's works
  • ⇤ Three Sturgeons. In Animal drawings collected by Felix Platter (so-called Gessner Albums), vol. 1 (Amsterdam, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Special Collections), fol. 60 ◼
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    • Grażyna Jurkowlaniec (2024-09-03 19:34)

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