Nomenclator aquatilium animantium : Icones animalium in mari et dulcibus aquis degentium plus quam DCC. cum nomenclaturis singulorum Latinis, Graecis, Italicis, Hispanicis, Gallicis, Germanicis, Anglicis, alijsq́[ue] interdum, per certos ordines digestae ...

Gessner, Conrad, 1516-1565 · 1606 · Heidelbergae : E typographeio Iohannis Lancelloti : Impensis Andreae Cambieri · 96 pictures

Nomenclator aquatilium animantium is a 1606 Heidelberg zoological picture book compiled by Conrad Gessner, the Zurich naturalist, listing over seven hundred sea and freshwater creatures in several languages for scholars and naturalists. The woodcut fish here are shown in profile, each with its scales, fins and spines rendered in fine parallel hatching, offering a designer a bank of early modern hand-cut fish outlines with strong dynamic silhouettes.

Aquatic animals -- Pictorial works · Marine animals -- Early works to 1800 · Fishes -- Early works to 1800 · Zoology -- Pre-Linnean works

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