Amusement microscopique tant pour l'esprit, que pour les yeux : contenant cinquante estampes dessinées d'après nature et enluminées, avec leurs explications
Amusement microscopique is a French-language book of fifty hand-coloured copper-plate microscopy engravings, compiled by Martin Frobenius Ledermüller and published in Nuremberg in 1764 for amateur readers who wanted both instruction and entertainment. The plates show magnified plant and animal tissues as tidy repeating patterns, such as honeycomb-like cell grids, striated fibres and concentric growth rings, rendered in restrained brown and ochre washes that a designer could borrow for botanical or scientific pattern work.
