Things (Material, inanimate objects, mostly works of art, both preserved and unpreserved)
Things – [Ico1900] Eurasian beaver (Castor fiber)
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[T82917]Armadillo and Beaver. In Antoine François Prévost, Histoire générale des voyages [vol. 15], Paris: Marguerite Didot (née Ravenel) (printer), 1759 (Washington, DC, Smithsonian Libraries) ◼printing: impressionpage: figureetchingpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T82928]Beaver, Hedgehog and Porcupine. In Noël-Antoine Pluche, Le Spectacle De La Nature ... Contenant ce qui regarde les animaux & les plantes, The Hague: 1743 (Berlin, SBB) ◼printing: impressionpage: figurepaperbook decoration: illustration
[T65060]Eurasian Beaver (Fiber). In Pedanius Dioscorides, Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Petri Andreae Matthioli Senensis Commentarii, in libros sex Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbei, Venice: Vincenzo Valgrisi (printer), 1558, p. 198 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T5160]Conrad Schnitt (printmaker), Beaver or Musk Rat (Bißem thier). In Sebastian Münster, Cosmographia. Bschreibung aller Lender..., Basel: Heinrich Petri (printer), 1544 (Munich, BSB), p. dcxxxv ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T5242]Conrad Schnitt (printmaker), Beaver (for Castoreum). In Sebastian Münster, Cosmographiae uniuersalis Lib. VI in quibus, iuxta certiores fidei scriptorum ..., Basel: Heinrich Petri (printer), January 1550 - March 1550 (Cracow, MNK, BCzart), p. 1043 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T83166]Beaver (Castor). In Gart der gesundheit Zu latein Hortvs Sanitatis ..., Johannes de Cuba (compiler), Strasbourg: Matthias Apiarius (printer), 1536 (Munich, BSB), fol. XVr ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T83162]Johann Elias Ridinger (designer, printmaker), Beaver (Der Biber in seiner Ruhe). In Johann Elias Ridinger, Entwurf einiger Thiere ... nach dem Leben gezeichnet, samt beygefügten Anmerkungen ... Fünffter Theil, Augsburg: Johann Elias Ridinger (publisher), 1740 (Munich, BSB) ◼printing: impressionpage: figureetchingpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T82991]Jan (II) Tons (draughtsman), Over Door Tapestry with the Arms of Poland on landscape background with Beaver and Porcupine (Cracow, Wawel Royal Castle). Part of Jagiellonian tapestries (the Wawel Arrasses) ◼craftstextile: silk250010951550 ‑ 15601550‑01‑011560‑12‑31
[T49435]Eurasian Beaver (Fiber). In Pedanius Dioscorides, Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Petri Andreae Matthioli medici Senensis Commentarii, in libros sex Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbei, de medica materia. Adiectis quam plurimis plantarum & animalium imaginibus, eodem authore (var. B), Venice: Vincenzo Valgrisi (printer), 1554 (Vienna, ÖNB), p. 176 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcut, hand colouringpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T9079]Eurasian Beaver. In Pierre Belon, Petri Bellonii Cenomani De aquatilibus Libri duo ..., Paris: Charles Estienne (printer), 1553 (Cambridge, MA, Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library), p. 30 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T51031]Cristoforo Coriolano (printmaker), Eurasian Beaver (Castor). In Ulisse Aldrovandi, Vlyssis Aldrovandi Patricii Bononiensis De Qvadrvpedib[us] Digitatis Viviparis Libri Tres ..., Bologna: Nicolò Tebaldini (printer), Bartolomeo Ambrosini (publisher), Marco Antonio Bernia (publisher), 1645 (Warsaw, BN), p. 279 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T41523]Eurasian Beaver (Castor). 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. 309 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T44971]Eurasian Beaver (Fiber, Biber). In Conrad Gessner, Thierbüch: Das ist ein kurtze bschreybung aller vierfüssigen Thieren ..., Conrad Forer (translator), Zürich: Christoph Froschauer (printer), 1563 (Zürich, ZB), fol. XXIIr ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T46213]Eurasian Beaver. In Conrad Gessner, Icones Animalivm Qvadrvpedvm Viviparorvm Et Oviparorvm ..., Zürich: Christoph Froschauer (printer), 1560 (Zürich, ETH-Bibliothek), p. 84 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T2302]Eurasian Beaver (Castor). In Conrad Gessner, Conradi Gesneri medici Tigurini Historiae Animalium Lib[er] I de Quadrupedibus uiuiparis ..., Zürich: Christoph Froschauer (printer), 1551 (Halle (Saale), ULB), p. 336 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T82980]François-Nicolas Martinet (designer), Robert Bénard (printmaker), Beaver and Porcupine. In Recueil de planches, sur les sciences, les arts libéraux et les arts mechaniques, Paris: 1768 (Paris, Bibliothèque Mazarine), Pl. XIII ◼printing: impressionpage: figureetchingpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T82972]Beaver hunt. In Wolf Helmhard von Hohberg, Georgica Curiosa Aucta, 2, Nuremberg: Wolfgang Moritz Endter and Johann Andreas Endter, sons (printer), 1695, p. 641 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurepaperbook decoration: illustration
[T82967]Beaver Hunt. In Wolf Helmhard von Hohberg, Georgica Curiosa. Bd. 2, Nuremberg: Wolfgang Moritz Endter and Johann Andreas Endter, sons (printer), 1682 (Göttingen, SUB) ◼printing: impressionpage: figurepaperbook decoration: illustration
[T50469]Beaver. In Pierre Pomet, Histoire générale des drogues, traitant des plantes, des animaux et des minéraux, Paris: Augustine Pillon (printer), Jean-Baptiste Loyson (printer), 1694 (Paris, BnF), p. 19 ◼printing: impressionpage: figureetchingpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T82923]Armadillo and Beaver. In Antoine François Prévost, Histoire générale des voyages [vol. 22], Amsterdam: Daniel Jean Changuion (printer), Evert van Harrevelt (printer), 1777 ◼printing: impressionpage: figureetchingpaperbook decoration: illustration