Swiss physician, bibliographer and naturalist (1516–1565)

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Conrad Gesner. Line engraving, 1666.

Conrad Gesner. Line engraving by T. de Bry.

Philosophers and writers: twenty portraits. Engraving by J.W. Cook, 1825.

Conrad Gesner. Woodcut, 1565.

Conrad Gesner. Mezzotint by J. J. Haid, 1747.

Conrad Gesner. Process print after C. Meyer, 1662.

Some explanatory notes to Mr. H.M. Fraser's article about Moufet's Theatrum Insectorum / by Bernhard Milt.

Konrad Gesner, Leben und Werk : mit VI Abbildungen / [Willy Ley].

Conrad Gessner : 1516-2016 : Facetten eines Universums / Urs B. Leu, Mylene Ruoss (Herausgeber).

Conrad Gessner : a bio-bibliography / by Hans (Hanan) Wellisch.

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].

De stirpium, maxime earum, quae in Germania nostra nascuntur, usitatis nomenclaturis, propriisque, differentiis, neque non temperaturis ac facultatibus, commentariorum libri tres / germanica primum lingua conscripti, nunc in latinam conversi, interprete Davide Kybero. His accesserunt ... praefationes duae altera D. Conradi Gesneri ... rei herbariae scriptorum ... catalogum complectens: altera ipsius authoris, herbariae cognitionis laudes ... continens. Praeterea ... adjectus est Benedicti Textoris Segusiani de stirpum differentiis, ex Dioscoride secundum locos communes, libellus.

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.

The newe jewell of health, wherein is contayned the most excellent secretes of phisicke and philosophie, devided into fower bookes. In the which are the best approved remedies for the diseases as well inwarde as outwarde, of all the partes of mans bodie: treating very amplye of all dystillations of waters, of oyles, balmes, quintessences ... Gathered out of the best and most approved authors / ... Faithfully corrected and published in Englishe, by George Baker, Chirurgian.

A rhinoceros. Woodcut after A. Dürer.

A unicorn. Woodcut after C. Gessner.

Epistolarum medicinalium liber quartus, denuo recusus, adjecto ineditarum ejusdem epistolarum specimine / Cura Joannis Hanharti.

A cercopithecus (a long-tailed monkey) holding a stick in its right hand. Woodcut after C. Gessner.

A vulture. Woodcut after C. Gessner.

A hippopotamus standing in the water biting the tail of a crocodile. Woodcut after C. Gessner.

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Conrad Gessner

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Epistolarum medicinalium liber quartus, denuo recusus, adjecto ineditarum ejusdem epistolarum specimine / Cura Joannis Hanharti.

A cercopithecus (a long-tailed monkey) holding a stick in its right hand. Woodcut after C. Gessner.

A vulture. Woodcut after C. Gessner.

A hippopotamus standing in the water biting the tail of a crocodile. Woodcut after C. Gessner.

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Conrad Gessner

Images by Conrad Gessner

Images featuring Conrad Gessner

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Epistolarum medicinalium liber quartus, denuo recusus, adjecto ineditarum ejusdem epistolarum specimine / Cura Joannis Hanharti.

A cercopithecus (a long-tailed monkey) holding a stick in its right hand. Woodcut after C. Gessner.

A vulture. Woodcut after C. Gessner.

A hippopotamus standing in the water biting the tail of a crocodile. Woodcut after C. Gessner.

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