Things (Material, inanimate objects, mostly works of art, both preserved and unpreserved)
Functional context: [F353] Gessner's Historia animalium or Icones, or Topsell
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ID Thing Type Category Technique Materials Function Image Width Height Depth Date description Date from Date to
[T9125]Sea cow (Vacca marina). In Conrad Gessner, Conradi Gesneri medici Tigurini Historiae Animalium Liber IIII: qui est de Piscium & Aquatilium animantium natura, Zürich: Christoph Froschauer (printer), 1558 (Washington, DC, Library of Congress), p. 248 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T5563]African buffalo (De Bubalo Africano, longe diverso a bubalo recentiorum). In Conrad Gessner, Appendix historiae Quadrupedum uiuiparorum & ouiparorum, Zürich: Christoph Froschauer (printer), 1554 (Washington, DC, Smithsonian Libraries), p. 11 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T5574]African buffalo (Bubalus Africanus). In Conrad Gessner, Conradi Gesneri Medici Tigvrini Historiae Animalivm Liber Primvs De quadrupedibus viuiparis... Editio secunda ..., Frankfurt am Main: Robert Cambier (printer), 1602 (Washington, DC, Smithsonian Libraries), p. 125 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T5540]African buffalo (Indianischer oder Affricanischer Büffel, Bubalus Affricanus, Ein wälscher Büffel). In Conrad Gessner, Thierbüch: Das ist ein kurtze bschreybung aller vierfüssigen Thieren ..., Conrad Forer (translator), Zürich: Christoph Froschauer (printer), 1563 (Zürich, ZB), fol. CXXVIIIv ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T4437]African buffalo (Bubalus Africanus Bellonii). In Conrad Gessner, Icones Animalivm Qvadrvpedvm Viviparorvm Et Oviparorvm ..., Zürich: Christoph Froschauer (printer), 1560 (Zürich, ETH-Bibliothek), p. 33 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T45092]African buffalo (Bubalus Africanus). In Conrad Gessner, Conradi Gesneri medici Tigurini historiae animalium liber II. de quadrupedibus oviparis ... item oviparorum quorundam appendix, Zürich: Christoph Froschauer (printer), 1554 (Zürich, ZB), p. 11 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T5617]African buffalo (African bugil). In Edward Topsell, The History Of Four-footed Beasts And Serpents..., London: Ellen Cotes (printer), 1658 (Durham, NC, Duke University Libraries), p. 46 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T46210]Monogrammist FO (printmaker attr.), Wild boar. In Conrad Gessner, Icones Animalivm Qvadrvpedvm Viviparorvm Et Oviparorvm ..., Zürich: Christoph Froschauer (printer), 1560 (Zürich, ETH-Bibliothek), p. 82 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T46211]Hippopotamus Biting Crocodile. In Conrad Gessner, Icones Animalivm Qvadrvpedvm Viviparorvm Et Oviparorvm ..., Zürich: Christoph Froschauer (printer), 1560 (Zürich, ETH-Bibliothek), p. 82 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T2338]Ram (De ove). In Conrad Gessner, Conradi Gesneri medici Tigurini Historiae Animalium Lib[er] I de Quadrupedibus uiuiparis ..., Zürich: Christoph Froschauer (printer), 1551 (Halle (Saale), ULB), p. 873 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T81204]Wels Catfish? ('On Boneless Fish and Isinglass' - De Exosse pisce, et de Ichtyocolla, Rondeletius). In Conrad Gessner, Conradi Gesneri medici Tigurini Historiae Animalium Liber IIII: qui est de Piscium & Aquatilium animantium natura, Zürich: Christoph Froschauer (printer), 1558 (Washington, DC, Library of Congress), p. 57 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T45057]Armadillo (De tato). In Conrad Gessner, Appendix historiae Quadrupedum uiuiparorum & ouiparorum, Zürich: Christoph Froschauer (printer), 1554 (Washington, DC, Smithsonian Libraries), p. 20 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T38650]Guinea pig (De cuniculo ver porcello Indico). In Conrad Gessner, Appendix historiae Quadrupedum uiuiparorum & ouiparorum, Zürich: Christoph Froschauer (printer), 1554 (Washington, DC, Smithsonian Libraries), p. 19 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T38649]Barbary ground squirrel (De sciuro getulo). In Conrad Gessner, Appendix historiae Quadrupedum uiuiparorum & ouiparorum, Zürich: Christoph Froschauer (printer), 1554 (Washington, DC, Smithsonian Libraries), p. 18 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T18583]Horned hare head. In Conrad Gessner, Conradi Gesneri Medici Tigvrini Historiae Animalivm Liber Primvs De quadrupedibus viuiparis... Editio secunda ..., Frankfurt am Main: Robert Cambier (printer), 1602 (Washington, DC, Smithsonian Libraries), p. 634 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T18590]Horned hare head. In Conrad Gessner, Thierbüch: Das ist ein kurtze bschreybung aller vierfüssigen Thieren ..., Conrad Forer (translator), Zürich: Christoph Froschauer (printer), 1563 (Zürich, ZB), fol. LXXIIr ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T83448]Horned Hare Head. In Conrad Gessner, Icones Animalivm Qvadrvpedvm Viviparorvm Et Oviparorvm ..., Zürich: Christoph Froschauer (printer), 1560 (Zürich, ETH-Bibliothek), p. 64 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T18582]Horned hare skull. In Conrad Gessner, Conradi Gesneri Medici Tigvrini Historiae Animalivm Liber Primvs De quadrupedibus viuiparis... Editio secunda ..., Frankfurt am Main: Robert Cambier (printer), 1602 (Washington, DC, Smithsonian Libraries), p. 634 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T18588]Horned hare skull. In Conrad Gessner, Thierbüch: Das ist ein kurtze bschreybung aller vierfüssigen Thieren ..., Conrad Forer (translator), Zürich: Christoph Froschauer (printer), 1563 (Zürich, ZB), fol. LXXIIr ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T46109]Horned hare skull. In Conrad Gessner, Icones Animalivm Qvadrvpedvm Viviparorvm Et Oviparorvm ..., Zürich: Christoph Froschauer (printer), 1560 (Zürich, ETH-Bibliothek), p. 64 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration