Le jardin des plantes: description et moeurs des mammifères de la Ménagerie et du Muséum d'histoire naturelle
Le jardin des plantes is an 1845 French natural history book by Pierre Boitard, describing the mammals of the Paris Ménagerie and Muséum d'histoire naturelle for a general readership. The pictures are small black-and-white wood engravings of animals in naturalistic settings, with fine parallel hatching that gives fur and foliage texture a designer could borrow for botanical or zoological motifs.
