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Francisci Bovssveti Svrregiani doctoris medici, De natvra aqvatilivm carmen : in vniuersam Gvlielmi Rondeletii doctoris medici, & medicinae in schola Monspeliensi professoris regij celeberrimi historiae, quam de aquatilibus scripsit: Cum veris & natiuis eorum iconibus: Opusculum nunquàm hactenus typis excussum

Boussuet, Francois, 1520-1572 · 1558 · Lvgdvni : Apvd Matthiam Bonhome, svb clava avrea · 64 pictures

A Latin verse treatise on aquatic animals by the physician François Boussuet, published in Lyon in 1558 as a companion to Guillaume Rondelet's fish histories, for naturalists and scholars. Its woodcuts show fish in profile, drawn with fine hatching and cross-hatching that models scales, fins and gill covers against a plain paper ground.

Fishes · Marine animals · Epigrams, Latin · Fishes -- Pictorial works · Marine animals -- Pictorial works

Internet Archive · Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library · Public domain (published before 1931) · More from this library