1st Edition
History of Four Footed Beasts and Serpents and Insects Volume 1 Four Footed Beasts
Edited By Edward Topsell
Copyright 1967
1130 Pages
by
Routledge
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.
Introduction, Alphabetical istings from 'The Antalope' to 'Of the Zibeth or Sivet Cat'.
Biography
Edward Topsell