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Gessner, Conrad, 1516-1565

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  • Quatre livres des secrets de medecine et de la philosophie chimique / Faicts françois par M. Jean Liebault ... Esquels sont descrits plusieurs remedes singuliers poru toutes maladies tant interieures qu'exterieures du corps humain ... les manieres de destiller eaux, huyles, et quintes essences de toute sorte de matieres: faire les extractions, les sels artificiels, et l'or potable.
  • De omni rerum fossilium genere, gemmis, lapidibus, metallis, et hujusmodi, libri aliquot, plerique nunc primum editi ... / [Konrad Gesner].
  • Above, a lynx; below, a beast with a feathery tail carrying its young on its back. Woodcut after C. Gessner.
  • Above, an otter eating a fish; below, a beaver. Woodcut after C. Gessner.
  • De omni rerum fossilium genere, gemmis, lapidibus, metallis, et hujusmodi, libri aliquot, plerique nunc primum editi ... / [Konrad Gesner].
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    Epistolarum medicinalium liber quartus, denuo recusus, adjecto ineditarum ejusdem epistolarum specimine / Cura Joannis Hanharti.

    Gessner, Conrad, 1516-1565. | Date: 1823
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    A cercopithecus (a long-tailed monkey) holding a stick in its right hand. Woodcut after C. Gessner.

    Gessner, Conrad, 1516-1565. | Date: 1553/1560 | Reference: 40987i
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    A vulture. Woodcut after C. Gessner.

    Gessner, Conrad, 1516-1565. | Date: 1553/1560 | Reference: 40956i
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    A hippopotamus standing in the water biting the tail of a crocodile. Woodcut after C. Gessner.

    Gessner, Conrad, 1516-1565. | Date: [1560?] | Reference: 41006i
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    Quatre livres des secrets de medecine et de la philosophie chimique / Faicts françois par M. Jean Liebaut ... Esquels sont descrits plusieurs remedes singuliers pour toutes maladies tant interieures qu'exterieures du corps humain ... les manieres de destiller eaux, huyles, et quintes essences de toutes sorte de matieres: faire les extractions, les sels artificiels, et l'or potable.

    Gessner, Conrad, 1516-1565 | Date: 1628
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