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. Conradi Gesneri medici Tigurini Historiæ animalium Lib. I. de quadrupedibus uiuiparis : opus philosophis, medicis, grammaticis, philologis, poe?tis, & omnibus rerum linguarumq?; uariarum studiosis, utilissimum simul iucundissimumq?; futurum ... Pre-Linnean works; Zoology. L ijp tagtcoqiiantur. Lufciofum Latini lolio uiditare prouerbiali iocodicunt, Germani quidam in eundem, V^ctn^tincif>f>m$fu£r/tot vcrtai^Me frtlberblm^SiocuIosmdomum con* ucriatiwtuios .cxcscaMi» D E BVBALa. A, fftjgj^jVBALi nomenomninoincertumeft,nonhodtefo!um,fediamPlintjfeculoconfufuni* G £«8 Aluis
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