L'histoire de la nature des oiseaux, avec leurs descriptions, et naïfs portraicts retirez du naturel, écrite en sept livres
Pierre Belon's 1555 Paris natural history of birds, printed by Gilles Corrozet, is a French-language study of bird anatomy and species for a learned readership. Its woodcuts show single birds in profile on a ground line with sparse sprigs, rendered in fine parallel hatching that a designer could borrow for botanical or ornithological line work.
