1st Edition
The History of Four-Footed Beasts and Serpents and Insects Volume I: Four-Footed Beasts
Edited By Edward Topsell
Copyright 1968
1130 Pages
by
Routledge
1130 Pages
by
Routledge
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First Published in 1967. This is volume one of three of The History of Four- footed Beasts taken principally from the ‘ Historite Animalium’ of Conrad Gesner. During the first decade of the seventeenth century, when Topsell prepared his translation, zoology had just become a science. It has a unique place: It was the first major book on animals printed in Great Britain in English; and it appeared at the last moment in history when all zoological knowledge since antiquity could be summarized sympathetically, before it was rendered a curiosity by the many new discoveries soon to come.
‘The Antalope’ then Alphabetical Listings to ‘Of the Zibeth, or Sivet-Cat’.
Biography
Edward Topsell