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The History of Four-Footed Beasts and Serpents and Insects

Volume I: Four-Footed Beasts

Edward Topsell editor

Format:Set / collection

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:13th Oct '67

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First Published in 1967. This is volume one of three of The History of Four- footed Beasts taken principally from the ‘ Historite Animalium’ of Conrad Gesner. During the first decade of the seventeenth century, when Topsell prepared his translation, zoology had just become a science. It has a unique place: It was the first major book on animals printed in Great Britain in English; and it appeared at the last moment in history when all zoological knowledge since antiquity could be summarized sympathetically, before it was rendered a curiosity by the many new discoveries soon to come.

ISBN: 9780714615899

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 2902g

1130 pages