[Collection of proofs before plate numbers of some of the plates in Bybel der Natuure=Biblia naturae]

Swammerdam, Jan, 1637-1680 · 1700 · [S.l. : s.n.] · 33 pictures

This is a set of proof plates from Jan Swammerdam's Bybel der Natuure (Biblia naturae), an early 18th-century natural history compendium of invertebrate anatomy and entomology, published without place or printer's name. The engravings are detailed anatomical studies made for naturalists and scientific readers of the period. Plates show snails, slugs, insect larvae, frogs, squid and cephalopod anatomy in fine hatched line, with numbered figures and labelled parts, offering a designer clean diagrammatic linework, precise hatching and an orderly grid of specimen studies.

Invertebrates · Pictorial works · Entomology · Early works to 1800 · Invertebrates -- Pictorial works · Entomology -- Early works to 1800

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