P.Gasparis Schotti ... physica curiosa, sive mirabilia naturae et artis libris XII ...
Kaspar Schott's Physica curiosa, published in Nuremberg in 1667 by the Endter firm, is a Latin encyclopedia of natural wonders and curiosities aimed at learned readers interested in nature and art. Its copperplate pages show animals and creatures drawn in a plain, dense engraved hand, with labelled figures arranged in ordered rows across each plate, including a baboon, a sea wolf, a winged hybrid and a cockerel with a human face. A designer might borrow the crisp, hatched line work and the orderly layout of captioned specimens for vintage natural history motifs.
