French anatomist, printer, agronomist (1504-1564)

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L'oeuvre de Charles Estienne et l'école anatomique parisienne / par Pierre Huard et Mirko Drazen Grmek.

La dissection des parties du corps humain : avec les figures & declaratiõ des incisions, composées par Estienne de la Riuiere. Imprimé à Paris, chez Simon de Colines, 1546.

A male écorché seated, exposing his abdomen, with his bladder, rectum and anus on a ledge beside him. Woodcut by François Jollat, 1545, after Étienne de La Rivière and Charles Estienne.

Maison rustique, or the covntrey farme / compiled in the French tongue by Charles Steuens and John Liebault ... and translated into English by Richard Svrflet ... Also a short collection of the hunting of the hart, wilde bore, hare, fox, gray, cony; of birds and faulconrie.

De dissectione partium corporis humani libri tres / à Carolo Stephano, ... Una cum figuris et incisionum declarationibus, a Stephano Riverio chirurgo compositis.

Maison rustique, or, the countrey farme / compyled in the French tongue by Charles Steuens, and Iohn Liebault ... and translated into English by Richard Surflet ... Now newly reuiewed, corrected, and augmented, with diuers large additions, out of the works of Serres his Agriculture, Vinet his Maison champestre, French, Albyterio [i.e. the 'Libro de albeyteria' of F. de la Reyna] in Spanish, Grilli [i.e. Gallo?] in Italian, and other authors. And the husbandry of France, Italie, and Spaine reconciled and made to agree with ours here in England: by Geruase Markham.

Fünfzehen Bücher von dem Feldbau und recht volkommener Wolbestellung eines bekömmlichen Landsitzes unnd geschicklich angeordneten Meyerhofs oder Landguts, sampt allem was demmselben Nutzes und Lusts halben anhängig / [Charles Estienne].

Agricoltvra nvova, et casa di villa / di Carlo Stefano francese. Tradotta dal Kr. Hercole Cato. ... Con un discorso della caccia ... et de gli uccelli da rapina. ... Tvtta di nvovo corretta et megliorata con le tauole de' capitoli; delle cose più notabili; & delle malattie co' rimedii loro.

De latinis et graecis nominibus arborum, fruticum, herbarum, piscium, et avium liber, ex Aristotele, Theophrasto, Dioscoride, Galeno, Nicandro, etc / [Charles Estienne].

Dissection of the abdomen of a pregnant woman expecting twins: the nude woman is shown seated on a bed, lifting two placentas to reveal the two foetuses. Woodcut, 1545.

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Charles Estienne

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Fünfzehen Bücher von dem Feldbau und recht volkommener Wolbestellung eines bekömmlichen Landsitzes unnd geschicklich angeordneten Meyerhofs oder Landguts, sampt allem was demmselben Nutzes und Lusts halben anhängig / [Charles Estienne].

Agricoltvra nvova, et casa di villa / di Carlo Stefano francese. Tradotta dal Kr. Hercole Cato. ... Con un discorso della caccia ... et de gli uccelli da rapina. ... Tvtta di nvovo corretta et megliorata con le tauole de' capitoli; delle cose più notabili; & delle malattie co' rimedii loro.

De latinis et graecis nominibus arborum, fruticum, herbarum, piscium, et avium liber, ex Aristotele, Theophrasto, Dioscoride, Galeno, Nicandro, etc / [Charles Estienne].

Dissection of the abdomen of a pregnant woman expecting twins: the nude woman is shown seated on a bed, lifting two placentas to reveal the two foetuses. Woodcut, 1545.

De dissectione partium corporis humani libri tres / à Carolo Stephano, ... Una cum figuris et incisionum declarationibus, a Stephano Riverio chirurgo compositis.

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Charles Estienne

Images from the collections

Images by Charles Estienne

Works from the collections

Fünfzehen Bücher von dem Feldbau und recht volkommener Wolbestellung eines bekömmlichen Landsitzes unnd geschicklich angeordneten Meyerhofs oder Landguts, sampt allem was demmselben Nutzes und Lusts halben anhängig / [Charles Estienne].

Agricoltvra nvova, et casa di villa / di Carlo Stefano francese. Tradotta dal Kr. Hercole Cato. ... Con un discorso della caccia ... et de gli uccelli da rapina. ... Tvtta di nvovo corretta et megliorata con le tauole de' capitoli; delle cose più notabili; & delle malattie co' rimedii loro.

De latinis et graecis nominibus arborum, fruticum, herbarum, piscium, et avium liber, ex Aristotele, Theophrasto, Dioscoride, Galeno, Nicandro, etc / [Charles Estienne].

Dissection of the abdomen of a pregnant woman expecting twins: the nude woman is shown seated on a bed, lifting two placentas to reveal the two foetuses. Woodcut, 1545.

De dissectione partium corporis humani libri tres / à Carolo Stephano, ... Una cum figuris et incisionum declarationibus, a Stephano Riverio chirurgo compositis.

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