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Monsters, Marvels, and Mythical Beasts: Bibliography

An online guide to the exhibit titled "Monsters, Marvels, and Mythical Beasts," on display at Sterne Library, Spring semester 2020.

Bibliography

Andrew, Laurence; Hudson, Noel; Bernard Quaritch (Firm). An early English version of Hortus sanitatis: a recent bibliographical discovery. London: B. Quaritch, 1954.

Ball, Philip. The devil's doctor: Paracelsus and the world of Renaissance magic and science. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.

Bulfinch, Thomas; Klapp, William H. The age of fable; or the Beauties of mythology. New York: The Heritage Press, 1942.

Galvani, Luigi...De viribus electricitatis in motu musculari commentarius... Mutinae: Apud Societatem typographicam; MDCCXCII 1792.

Harrison, Jane Ellison. Myths of the Odyssey in art and literature. London: Rivingtons, 1882.

Hortus sanitatis. Strassburg: Johann Pruss, 1497.

Le Clerc, Daniel. Histoire de la medecine... A La Haye: Chez Isaac van der Kloot; MDCCXXIX 1729.

Leonard, William Ellery; Ward, Lynd. Beowulf. New York: The Heritage Press, c1939.

Liceti, Fortunio. De monstrorum caussis, natura, et differentiis libri duo ... Patavii: Apud Paulum Frambottum; MDCXXXIV 1634.

Matthews, John & Caitlin Matthews. The element encyclopedia of magical creatures. New York: Barnes & Noble, 2008.

Morrison, Elizabeth. Beasts: factual & fantastic. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum; London: British Library, 2007.

Nishimura, Margot McIlwain. Images in the margins. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum; London: British Library, 2009.

Paré, Ambroise. The workes of that famous chirurgion Ambrose Parey: translated out of Latine and compared with the French. London: Printed by Th: Cotes and R. Young; anno 1634.

----- Les oeuures de M. Ambroise Paré, conseiller, et premier chirurgien du roy ...: auec les figures & portraicts tant de l'anatomie que des instruments de chirurgie, & de plusieurs monstres : le tout diuisé en vingt six liures, comme il est contenu en la page suyuante. A Paris: Chez Gabriel Buon; 1575.

Paré, Ambroise; Pallister, Janis L. On monsters and marvels. Chicago: University of Chicago Press; c1982.

Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā (Rhazes). Ninth Book of the Al'Mansuri (Liber Nonus ad Almansorem). Expounded and Commented by Gerard de Solo and Translated into Hebrew by the physician Tobiel ben Samuel de Leiria (of Portugal), Portugal, 1388 translation; 15th century copy, https://uab.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/PHARM/id/1262.

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft; Pearson, Edmund Lester; Henry Everett. Frankenstein; or, The modern Prometheus. New York: Heritage Press, 1934.

Stevenson, Robert Louis; Muller, Hans Alexander. The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. New York: The Peter Pauper press, 1945?

Stoker, Bram. Dracula. New York: Grossett & Dunlap; 1931, c1897.

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