Dr I. Ionstons beschrijving van de natuur der gekerfde of kronkel-dieren, slangen en draken. Neffens haer beeldenissen in oper gesneden.
This is a 1660 Dutch natural history of insects, serpents and dragons by Johannes Jonston, engraved by Matthias Graus and printed in Amsterdam by Jan Jacobsz Schipper for naturalists and scholarly readers. The plates are dense rows of small engraved insects, larvae, beetles and bugs, each specimen numbered and set in orderly grids on the page. A designer could draw on their tidy taxonomic arrangement, fine hatching and the varied silhouettes of crawling forms for pattern, borders or botanical-style layouts.
