The history of four-footed beasts and serpents describing at large their true and lively figure, their several names, conditions, kinds, virtues ... countries of their breed, their love and hatred to mankind, and the wonderful work by Edward Topsell ; whereunto is now added, The theater of insects, or, Lesser living creatures ... by T. Muffet ...
| dc.contributor | Text Creation Partnership, |
| dc.contributor.author | Topsell, Edward, 1572-1625? |
| dc.contributor.author | Topsell, Edward, 1572-1625? Historie of serpents. |
| dc.contributor.author | Gesner, Konrad, 1516-1565. Historia animalium Liber 1. English. |
| dc.contributor.author | Gesner, Konrad, 1516-1565. Historia animalium Liber 5. English. |
| dc.contributor.author | Moffett, Thomas, 1553-1604. Insectorum sive minimorum animalium theatrum. English. |
| dc.contributor.author | Rowland, John, M.D. |
| dc.coverage.placeName | London |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-05-25 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-08-25T09:10:00Z |
| dc.date.available | 2022-08-25T09:10:00Z |
| dc.date.created | 1658 |
| dc.date.issued | 2008-09 |
| dc.identifier | ota:A42668 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/A42668 |
| dc.description.abstract | Vol. 1 is largely a translation of books 1 and 5 of: Historia animalium / Konrad Gesner, with additions by Topsell. The second part has title: The history of serpents, or, The second book of living creatures / Edward Topsell. Vol. 2, a translation of Insectorum sive minimorum animalium theatrum, has title: The theatre of insects, or, Lesser living creatures / T. Moffett. Reproduction of original in Yale University Library. |
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| dc.subject.lcsh | Zoology -- Pre-Linnean works. |
| dc.title | The history of four-footed beasts and serpents describing at large their true and lively figure, their several names, conditions, kinds, virtues ... countries of their breed, their love and hatred to mankind, and the wonderful work by Edward Topsell ; whereunto is now added, The theater of insects, or, Lesser living creatures ... by T. Muffet ... |
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| otaterms.date.range | 1600-1699 |
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