The historie of fovre-footed beastes: Describing the true and liuely figure of euery beast, with a discourse of their seuerall names, conditions, ... early printed books published in facsimile)

by Edward Topsell

Topsell's Histories Of Beasts

Genres: Nonfiction, History, Medievalism, Literature, Mysticism, Mythology, Language

757 pages, Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 1607

About the author

English cleric and author (circa 1572 – 1625) best remembered for his bestiary.

Reviews

[Callan Denham · Rating 5 out of 5]

Positively beaftly, this text imbibed my mind with murmurations of the lord's righteous creation. V steorra.

[Thomas Anthony · Rating 5 out of 5]

Nothing but respect for the author. This must have been an enormous undertaking.

[Jayson · Rating 5 out of 5]

An amazing bit of history and quite entertaining too. It's especially interesting to hear the author talk about things like dragons and unicorns as if they were actually real as they believed back then.