Historiae Animalium – Conrad Gesner 1551

Illustrations from Conrad Gesner’s Historiae Animalium published 1551-1558. Considered to be the first to be the first modern zoological work. This first attempt to describe many of the world’s animals accurately is illustrated with hand-colored woodcuts drawn from personal observations by Gesner and his colleagues. 43 PNG / 500 x 800 – 1000×1600 / 8MB Download: RAPIDSHARE