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Conradi Gesneri De rerum fossilium, lapidum et gemmarum maximè, figuris & similitudinibus liber : non solùm medicis, sed omnibus rerum naturae ac philologiae studiosis, vtilis & iucundus futurus

by: Gessner, Conrad, 1516-1565; Gessner, Conrad, 1516-1565. De omni rerum fossilium genere, gemmis, lapidibus, metallis, et huiusmodi, libri aliquot; Constable, William, former owner. DSI; Bayer, Frederick M., former owner. DSI

Publication date: 1565

Topics: Mineralogy, Precious stones

Publisher: Tiguri : [excudebat Iacobus Gesnerus]

Collection: biodiversity; smithsonian

Contributor: Smithsonian Libraries

Language: Latin

Leaves are printed on both sides

Publisher's information from Wellisch, H. Conrad Gessner: a bio-bibliography, 1975, no. 63

Printer's device ("A.G.") on t.p. and on leaf 169b

Errata: leaf 169a

Issued also as part [8] of his De omni rerum fossilium genere, gemmis, lapidibus, metallis ... see Ley, W. Konrad Gesner, Leben und Werk, 1929, p. 456

Signatures: 2A-2Y⁸

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SCNHRB copy 39088011698495 has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Gift of Dr. Frederick M. Bayer

SCNHRB copy has armorial bookplate of William Constable and Bayer's monogram on verso of t.p

SCNHRB copy bound in later calf; gilt spine with raised bands

SCNHRB copy is bound with: Epiphanius. De XII gemmis, quae erant in veste Aaronis. Tiguri : [excudebat Iacobus Gesnerus], 1565 - - Raynouard. De gemmis aliquot. Tiguri : [excudebat Iacobus Gesnerus], 1566. Bound together subsequent to publication