Things (Material, inanimate objects, mostly works of art, both preserved and unpreserved)
Things – [IcoC7137] Iconographies: Sturgeon (Acipenser) - Caption: Acipenser - Functional context: Gessner's Historia animalium or Icones, or Topsell
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[T81045]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 (Washington, DC, Library of Congress), p. 7printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration