Bibliotheca Instituta Et Collecta Primum Deinde In Epitomen Redacta Novorum Librorum

by Conrad Gesner

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Woodcut printer’s device on title. 6 p.l. last a blank , 691, 40 pp. Thick folio, cont. vellum over boards single wormhole in upper outer blank corner starting at p. 551-end , traces of ties. Zurich: C. Froschauer, 1574. Second edition of Gesner’s Bibliotheca Universalis, issued for the first time with this title, and edited by the author’s younger friend, Josias Simler 1530-76 . Our edition has been greatly enlarged and revised; it now

• Binding: Leather

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