Abbildungen merkwürdiger Thiere, nebst einer Beschreibung ihrer Lebensart
An 1792 German natural history picture book, Abbildungen merkwürdiger Thiere, published by Dreyßig with text by Georg Simon Klügel and Johann Reinhold Forster, aimed at general readers curious about animals. Its numbered plates show mammals and a few other creatures in hand-coloured engravings, each labelled in German with a plate number and tab heading. A designer could take the tidy grid of labelled specimens, the naturalistic poses and the soft colour washes as a model for vintage zoological charts.
