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100 1 $aTopsell, Edward,$d1572-1625?$0n 79075154.
245 14 $aThe historie of foure-footed beastes. :$bDescribing the true and liuely figure of euery beast, with a discourse of their seuerall names, conditions, kindes, vertues (both naturall and medicinall) countries of their breed, their loue and hate to mankinde, and the wonderfull worke of God in theircreation, preseruation, and destruction. Necessary for all diuines and students, because the story of euery beast is amplified with narrations out of Scriptures, fathers, phylosophers, physitians, and poets: wherein are declared diuers hyerogliphicks, emblems, epigrams, and other good histories, collected out of all the volumes of Conradus Gesner, and all other writers to this present day /$cBy Edward Topsell.
246 3 $aHistorie of fovre-footed beastes.
260 $aLondon :$bPrinted by William Iaggard,$c1607.
300 $a44 unnumbered pages, 757 pages, 15 unnumbered pages :$billustrations (woodcuts) ;$c32 cm (folio)
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent.
337 $acomputer$bc$2rdamedia.
338 $aonline resource$bcr$2rdacarrier.
500 $aFirst word of title ("The") is xylographic.
500 $a"A table of the names of all the beastes contayned in this hystory, in divers languages": 10 pages at end.
500 $aError in pagination: page 56 mis-numbered 59.
500 $aSignatures: Aœ́ [par.]œ́ 2[par.]ı́ *℗ø B-2Vœ́ 3A-3Xœ́ 3Yı́.
500 $aThe first and last leaf are blank.
500 $aLargely a translation of book 1 of Gesner's Historia animalium, with additions by Topsell.
500 $aTitle page varies: with cut of hyena (used for sea wolf on p. 749) or of gorgon (most copies; not illustrated in the text pp. 262-3); examples of both at British Library. B1, 2, 5, 6 in 2 settings; B2r catchword: 'they'; B6r line 1: 'crowne' (Huntington Library) or 'gers' and 'Crowne' (Harvard). In some copies (one of the British Library copies, for example) there is an extra leaf after F4 with heading: 'The Picture of the vulger Bugill Folio 57.' (STC).
510 4 $aSTC (2nd. ed.),$c24123.
510 4 $aESTC,$cS122276.
510 4 $aESTC$cS122276.
510 4 $aSTC (2nd ed.),$c24123.
591 00 $zCopy 1.$eTitle vignette is gorgon; B2r catchword 'gers', B6r line 1 'Crowne'; without extra leaf after F4. First and last leaves (blank) missing. Binding: 20th century blind tooled calf. Erased inscription on title page.
650 2 $aMammals.$0D008322.
650 2 $aZoology.$0D015046.
650 2 $aAbnormalities, Severe Teratoid.$0D009008.
650 7 $aMammals.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01006948.
650 7 $aMonsters.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01025752.
650 7 $aZoology.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01184696.
655 0 $aElectronic books.
700 1 $aGessner, Conrad,$d1516-1565.$tHistoria animalium.$0n 85053578.
752 $aEngland$dLondon.
776 1 $iPrint version:$tThe historie of foure-footed beastes.$w(OCoLC)19956545$w(UkLW)b1284696x.
907 $a.b3033469x