History Of Four Footed Beasts And Serpents

Author : Topsell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113662757X
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of Four Footed Beasts and Serpents and Insects written by Topsell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-11 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1967. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Edward Topsell
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Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book History of Four-footed Beasts and Serpents written by Edward Topsell and published by . This book was released on 1658 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edward Topsell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136956506
Total Pages : 621 pages
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Download or read book The History of Four-Footed Beasts and Serpents and Insects written by Edward Topsell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 621 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Elizabeth Morrison
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 1606065904
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Book of Beasts written by Elizabeth Morrison and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2019 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebration of the visual contributions of the bestiary--one of the most popular types of illuminated books during the Middle Ages--and an exploration of its lasting legacy. Brimming with lively animals both real and fantastic, the bestiary was one of the great illuminated manuscript traditions of the Middle Ages. Encompassing imaginary creatures such as the unicorn, siren, and griffin; exotic beasts including the tiger, elephant, and ape; as well as animals native to Europe like the beaver, dog, and hedgehog, the bestiary is a vibrant testimony to the medieval understanding of animals and their role in the world. So iconic were the stories and images of the bestiary that its beasts essentially escaped from the pages, appearing in a wide variety of manuscripts and other objects, including tapestries, ivories, metalwork, and sculpture. With over 270 color illustrations and contributions by twenty-five leading scholars, this gorgeous volume explores the bestiary and its widespread influence on medieval art and culture as well as on modern and contemporary artists like Pablo Picasso and Damien Hirst. Published to accompany an exhibition on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center May 14 to August 18, 2019.

Author : Edward Topsell
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Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book The History of Four-footed Beasts and Serpents and Insects written by Edward Topsell and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Boreman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Description of Three Hundred Animals, written by Thomas Boreman and published by . This book was released on 1769 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Percy J. Billinghurst
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Hundred Anecdotes of Animals written by Percy J. Billinghurst and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This delightful book, fully illustrated and organized alphabetically, contains a hundred anecdotes about animals that will charm readers of all ages. Discover the heroic actions of a hen, the musical abilities of mice, and the cleverness of foxes. Learn about the unusual friendships that can form between different species and the faithful companionship of dogs. From dolphins to crabs, this book provides a window into the fascinating lives of animals.

Author : Edward Topsell
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Historie of Serpents written by Edward Topsell and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Scott G. Bruce
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 014313504X
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Penguin Book of Dragons written by Scott G. Bruce and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two thousand years of legend and lore about the menace and majesty of dragons, which have breathed fire into our imaginations from ancient Rome to Game of Thrones A Penguin Classic The most popular mythological creature in the human imagination, dragons have provoked fear and fascination for their lethal venom and crushing coils, and as avatars of the Antichrist, servants of Satan, couriers of the damned to Hell, portents of disaster, and harbingers of the last days. Here are accounts spanning millennia and continents of these monsters that mark the boundary between the known and the unknown, including: their origins in the deserts of Africa; their struggles with their mortal enemies, elephants, in the jungles of South Asia; their fear of lightning; the world’s first dragon slayer, in an ancient collection of Sanskrit hymns; the colossal sea monster Leviathan; the seven-headed “great red dragon” of the Book of Revelation; the Loch Ness monster; the dragon in Beowulf, who inspired Smaug in Tolkien’s The Hobbit; the dragons in the prophecies of the wizard Merlin; a dragon saved from a centipede in Japan who gifts his human savior a magical bag of rice; the supernatural feathered serpent of ancient Mesoamerica; and a flatulent dragon the size of the Trojan Horse. From the dark halls of the Lonely Mountain to the blue skies of Westeros, we expect dragons to be gigantic, reptilian predators with massive, bat-like wings, who wreak havoc defending the gold they have hoarded in the deep places of the earth. But dragons are full of surprises, as is this book. For more than seventy-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 2,000 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Author : Hugh Edwin Strickland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
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Download or read book The Dodo and Its Kindred written by Hugh Edwin Strickland and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume by Strickland, an English ornithologist, and Mitchell, a physician, reconstructs the habits of the extinct dodo and related birds.. Since physical remains were so few, they also relied on contemporary paintings by artists such as Roelandt Savery, many of which are reproduced in this book.