Conrad Gessner - Bibliotheca universalis Zürich 1583 / Bibliographie
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Zürich, Christoph Froschauer 1583. Contemporary blind-stamped pigskin binding [31.5 x 20.5 cm]. (28) Bl., 835, (3) pp. With a woodcut on the title page. Third edition of Conrad Gesner's "Bibliotheca universalis" (Zürich, first published in 1545), described as "one of the epochal works in the annals of bibliography: the first 'universal' bibliography, that is, an international bibliography of authors who wrote in the learned languages, alphabetically arranged by their first names in accordance with medieval usage" (Breslauer & Folter 14). This is a revised and greatly enlarged edition of Gesner's seminal bibliography work.
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