Conradi Gesneri medici Tigurini Historiae animalium liber primus de quadrupedibus viuiparis : opus philosophis, medicis, grammaticis, philologis, poëtis, & omnibus rerum linguarumq́ue variarum studiosis, vtilissimum simul iucundissimumq́ue futurum
Gessner's 1602 Frankfurt edition of his natural history of viviparous quadrupeds, a Latin scholarly compendium for physicians, philologists and poets, printed by the Cambier bookshop. The woodcuts show animals in profile and fanciful heads, rendered in dense hatched line that a designer could borrow for vintage natural history motifs.
