Things (Material, inanimate objects, mostly works of art, both preserved and unpreserved)
ID Thing Type Category Technique Materials Function Image Width Height Depth Date description Date from Date to
[T82560]Andrea Fulvio, Illustrium Imagines, Rome: Giacomo Mazzocchi (printer), 15 November 1517 (Munich, BSB) ◼printing: early printed bookset or complex object: bound volume: codexwoodcut, black letterpresspaper
[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
[T45090]Red Fox (Vulpes). 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. 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
[T4400]Conrad Gessner, Icones Animalivm Qvadrvpedvm Viviparorvm Et Oviparorvm ..., Zürich: Christoph Froschauer (printer), 1560 (Zürich, ETH-Bibliothek)printing: early printed bookset or complex object: bound volume: codexwoodcut, black letterpresspaper
[T83447]Fourhorn sculpin (Scorpus simpliciter vel maior). 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. 1017 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T9123]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)printing: early printed bookset or complex object: bound volume: codexwoodcut, black letterpresspaper
[T83439]Antoine François Prévost, Histoire générale des voyages [vol. 1], Paris: 1746 (Washington, DC, Smithsonian Libraries)printing: early printed bookset or complex object: bound volume: codexwoodcut, etching, black letterpress, red letterpresspaper
[T83416]Map of Gaul. In Gaius Iulius Caesar, C. Ivlii Caesaris Commentarii Nouis emendationibus illustrati, Antwerp: Christophe Plantin (printer), 1570 (Munich, BSB) ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcut, hand colouringpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T83417]Map of Hispania. In Gaius Iulius Caesar, C. Ivlii Caesaris Commentarii Nouis emendationibus illustrati, Antwerp: Christophe Plantin (printer), 1570 (Munich, BSB) ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T83413]Uxellodunum. In Gaius Iulius Caesar, C. Ivlii Caesaris Commentarii Nouis emendationibus illustrati, Antwerp: Christophe Plantin (printer), 1570 (Munich, BSB) ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T83412]Massilia. In Gaius Iulius Caesar, C. Ivlii Caesaris Commentarii Nouis emendationibus illustrati, Antwerp: Christophe Plantin (printer), 1570 (Munich, BSB) ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T83411]Caesar's Fortifications and Alesia. In Gaius Iulius Caesar, C. Ivlii Caesaris Commentarii Nouis emendationibus illustrati, Antwerp: Christophe Plantin (printer), 1570 (Munich, BSB) ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration