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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 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Icones animalium quadrupedum viviparorum et oviparorum quae in historia animalium / Conradi Gesneri libro primo et secundo describuntur, cum nomenclaturis singulorum latinis, graecis, italicis, gallicis et germanicis plerumque.
  • De omni rerum fossilium genere, gemmis, lapidibus, metallis, et hujusmodi, libri aliquot, plerique nunc primum editi ... / [Konrad Gesner].
  • 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.
  • Icones animalium quadrupedum viviparorum et oviparorum quae in historia animalium / Conradi Gesneri libro primo et secundo describuntur, cum nomenclaturis singulorum latinis, graecis, italicis, gallicis et germanicis plerumque.
  • 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.
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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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    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.

    Bock, Hieronymus, 1498-1554 | Date: 1552
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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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