L'histoire de la natvre des oyseavx : avec levrs descriptions, & naïfs portraicts retirez du natvrel, escrite en sept livres
Pierre Belon's 1555 Paris natural history of birds, printed by Gilles Corrozet, is a French-language naturalist's catalogue with descriptions and woodcut portraits of individual species. The pictures are small hand-coloured woodcuts of birds set on grass or a branch, with a decorated initial letter, giving designers a model for restrained botanical-style animal illustration and tidy vignette framing.
