Vlyssis Aldrovandi Patricii Bononiensis Monstrorvm Historia: cum Indice copiosissimo
Ulisse Aldrovandi's Monstrorvm Historia, a 1642 Latin catalogue of monsters and prodigies edited by Marco Antonio Bernia and published in Bologna, drawn from Aldrovandi's natural-history collections. The woodcuts show hybrid and deformed bodies: a man-faced creature with a clawed torso, a four-legged animal with a long tail, a striped muscular beast, and a horned, long-tailed human figure, all in crisp hatched line that a designer could borrow for dark, engraved bestiary motifs.
