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Microform

Author

Topsell, Edward, 1572-1625?

Title The history of four-footed beasts and serpents ... [microform] : collected out of the writings of Conradus Gesner and other authors / by Edward Topsel ; whereunto is now added, The theater of insects ... by T. Muffet ...

Imprint

London : G. Sawbridge [etc.], 1658. (London : E. Cotes).

Copies

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe Basement Library of English Literature Microfiche Cabinets	LEL 20365-66.	---	Available

Edition	The whole revised, corrected and inlarged with the addition of two useful physical tables / by J[ohn] R[owland] M.D.
Description	2 v. in 1. : ill. ; 35 cm.
Series	Library of English literature ; LEL 20365-66.
Note	Paged continuously.
	Vol 1 is largely a translation of books 1 and 5 of Gesner's Historia animalium, with additions by Topsell. The second part has title: The history of serpents. Or, The second book of living creatures ... By Edward Topsell. London, Printed by E. Cotes, 1658.
	Vols. 2, a translation of Moffett's Insectorum ... theatrum, has title: The theatre of insects: or, Lesser living creatures ... By Tho. Mouffet ... London, Printed by E. C., 1658.
	Master microform held by: LrI.
Reproduction	Microfiche. Chicago, Ill. : Library Resources, 1970. 2 microfiches ; 8 x 13 cm. (Library of English literature ; LEL 20365-66).
Note	s 1970 ilu n
Subject	Zoology -- Pre-Linnean works
Added Author	Gesner, Konrad, 1516-1565.
	Moffett, Thomas, 1553-1604. Insectorum theatrum.
	Rowland, John, 1907-1984.