Conrad Gesner 1516 1565 Swiss naturalist and doctor Engraved by JW Cook
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Lycanthropy: Forest demon captured Germany 1531 and said to inhabit forests round Salzburg & Hamburg. Perhaps witch wearing u...
Lycanthropy: Forest demon captured Germany 1531 and said to inhabit forests round Salzburg & Hamburg. Perhaps witch wearing uncured skin - primitive rite which could have given rise to were-wolf legend. Woodcut of 1669 from edition of Gesner ''Historiae animalum'''
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Mythical beasts, A whale attacks a warship, 1598, From edition of Icones Animalium Aquatilium by Conrad Gesner, Woodcut, colo...
Mythical beasts, A whale attacks a warship, 1598, From edition of Icones Animalium Aquatilium by Conrad Gesner, Woodcut, colour added later
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The Sphinga, or Sphinx, 1607.
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The Unicorn, 1607.
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The Tiger, 1607.
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The hydra, 1608.
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Title page to 'The Historie of foure-footed beastes', 1607.