Abbildungen merkwürdiger Thiere, nebst einer Beschreibung ihrer Lebensart
A natural history picture book published in Germany in 1793 by Friedrich Christoph Dreyssig, with text by Johann Reinhold Forster and Georg Simon Klügel describing the habits of unusual animals. The single plate shows an ornate decorative vignette rather than an animal, with a tangle of leafy foliage and blossoms wrapped around a shallow, fluted urn-like base. A designer could take from it the dense, organic scrollwork that frames a central motif in late eighteenth-century book decoration.
