Conradi Gesneri medici Tigurini Historiæ animalium Lib. I. de quadrupedibus uiuiparis : opus philosophis, medicis, grammaticis, philologis, poëtis, & omnibus rerum linguarumq́; uariarum studiosis, utilissimum simul iucundissimumq́; futurum ..
Gessner's 1551 Zurich zoology volume on four-footed live-bearing animals, written by a Swiss physician for scholars, philologists and poets. Its woodcuts show animals drawn in stiff, frontal or side poses with hatched fur and claws, useful to a designer for early modern natural-history line work and bestiary-style creature figures.
