Appendix historiae quadrupedum uiuiparorum & ouiparorum Conradi Gesneri Tigurini
This is a 1554 Zurich zoology appendix by the Swiss naturalist Conrad Gessner, printed by Christoph Froschauer, cataloguing four-legged animals, live-bearing and egg-laying, for scholars and naturalists. Its woodcuts show animals in side profile, plainly drawn with hatched shading and a few ground lines, so a designer could borrow their clean outlines, stiff stances and hatched fur textures for vintage natural history motifs.
