Pierre Belon - Works By Belon

Works By Belon

All first published in Paris.

• 1551: Histoire de la nature des estranges poissons marins, which includes the first French illustration of a hippopotamus.
• 1553: De aquatilibus A French translation of this treatise on fishes, a foundation of modern ichtyology, was published in three editions at Paris, 1555, and the volume was reprinted in Frankfurt and Zurich.
• 1553: De arboribus Coniferis, Resiniferis aliisque semper virentibus..., a basic text on conifers, pines and evergreens.
• 1553 De admirabili operi antiquorum et rerum suspiciendarum praestantia..., treating the funerary customs of Antiquity, in three volumes, of which separate titles head the second, on mummification (De medicato funere seu cadavere condito et lugubri defunctorum ejulatione) and third (De medicamentis nonnullis, servandi cadaveris vim obtinentibus).
• 1553: Les observations de plusieurs singularitez et choses memorables trouvées en Grèce, Asie, Judée, Egypte, Arabie et autres pays étrangèrs.
• 1555: revised edition of the Observations; it was translated into Latin for an international readership de Charles de l'Ecluse, 1589
• 1555: L'Histoire de la nature des oyseaux.