Gulielmi Rondeletii doctoris Medici et medicinae ... Libri de piscibus marinis : in quibus veræ piscium effigies expressae sunt : quæ in tota piscium historia continentur, indicat elenchus pagina nona et decima : postremo accesserunt indices necessarij
Rondelet's De piscibus marinis, printed at Lyon in 1554 by Matthias Bonhomme, is a Renaissance natural history of sea fishes by a physician who wrote for scholars and naturalists. Its woodcut fish portraits are shown in profile with finely hatched scales, fins and spines rendered in crisp black line, a model for botanical-style scientific plates a designer might borrow for line work.
