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Historia natvrale

Imperato, Ferrante, 1550-1625 · 1672 · Venetia : Presso Combi & La Noù · 61 pictures

Historia naturale is a 1672 natural history catalogue by Neapolitan apothecary Ferrante Imperato, printed in Venice by Combi and La Noù for collectors and naturalists. Its woodcut illustrations show rock, coral and mineral specimens drawn as bold black-and-white hatched forms, with dense cross-hatching that suggests texture and volume for a designer studying line work.

Imperato, Ferrante, 1550-1625 -- Natural history collections -- Early works to 1800 · Natural history -- Catalogs and collections · Natural history -- Pre-Linnean works

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