Ioannis Eusebii Nierembergii Madritensis ex Societate Iesu ... Historia naturae, maxime peregrinae, libris XVI. distincta : in quibus rarissima naturae arcana, etiam astronomica, & ignota Indiarum animalia, ... plantae, metalla, lapides & alia mineralia, fluuiorumque & elementorum conditiones, etiam cum proprietatibus medicinalibus, describuntur ... : accedunt de miris & miraculosis naturis in Europâ libri duo, item de iisdem in terrâ Hebraeis promissâ liber vnus
This is a Latin natural history encyclopedia by Juan Eusebio Nieremberg, a Jesuit, published in Antwerp in 1635 by the Plantin press, with woodcut illustrations by Christoffel Jegher. The pictures show a decorative cartouche with figures and birds, a stylised bird, a flying bird over a grassy hillock, and a monkey, all rendered in dense, crisp black line on a cream page. A designer could take from them the economical hatching and contour work used to model feathers, fur and foliage.
