Abbildungen merkwürdiger Thiere, nebst einer Beschreibung ihrer Lebensart
A German natural history picture book of 1793 by Johann Reinhold Forster and Georg Simon Klügel, published by Dreyßig, pairing hand-coloured copperplate engravings of animals with peoples of the world for an educated German readership. The plates set labelled animals such as porcupine, fox, squirrel, zebra and gazelle beside costumed figures from Mongolia, Greenland and elsewhere, with German captions beneath each image. A designer could draw on their neat grid layouts, small framed vignettes and soft washes of colour for ethnographic or zoological material.
