1st Edition

The History of Four-Footed Beasts and Serpents and Insects Volume I: Four-Footed Beasts

Edited By Edward Topsell
1144 Pages
by Routledge

1144 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... Read more
‘The Antalope’ then Alphabetical Listings to ‘Of the Zibeth, or Sivet-Cat’.

Biography

Edward Topsell