Gesner Collection

Scenes of country life, with mythological figure. Engraving by Bernard Picart, from Johann Matthias Gesner, Scriptores rei rusticae veteres Latini: Cato, Varro, Columella, Palladius Frontispiece

CONRAD GESNERS STUDY
Conrad Gesners workshop for the study of natural history, Zurich (Switzerland) Date: circa 1560

Basilisk
Gesner, the author of the book whence the image comes, labels this creature a basilisk but its really a ray-fish. Date: 1598

Conrad Gesner
CONRAD GESNER The inventor of the lead pencil, was also a naturalist and noted scholar on Greek, Latin and the sciences. Date: 1516 - 1565

Folklore / Sea Serpent
The Sea-monk a marine monster which looks vaguely human, though probably not as much as Gesner would have us believe Date: 1558

GESNER (1516 - 1565)
CONRAD GESNER Swiss naturalist, medic, scholar, bibliographer and writer on Greek and Latin, zoology, the sciences and mountaineering. Date: 1516 - 1565

Guanaco, a species of camel native to the New World, Lama guanicoe.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from The Naturalists Pocket Magazine; or

Johann Matthias Gesner, German scholar and teacher
Johann Matthias Gesner (1691-1761), German classical scholar and schoolmaster

Vine cultivation (viticulture), II. Illustration by Christian Friedrich Boetius, from Johann Matthias Gesner, Scriptores rei rusticae veteres Latini: Cato, Varro, Columella, Palladius Date: 1773-1774

Vine cultivation (viticulture). Illustration by Christian Friedrich Boetius, from Johann Matthias Gesner, Scriptores rei rusticae veteres Latini: Cato, Varro, Columella, Palladius Tab. I

Bird-of-paradise
Plate 612 from Konrad Gesners Historia Animalium, Vol.3, (1555)

Owl De Ulula
Illustration of Owl De Ulula by Konrad Gesner (1516-1565)

Rhinocerotidae (family), rhinoceros
Woodcut engraving published on page 953 of of Historiae Animalium, Vol. 1 De Quadrupedibus Viviparis (Viviparous Quadrupeds), 1555-1558, by Konrad Gesner (1516-1565)

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