L'histoire naturelle des estranges poissons marins, avec la vraie peincture & description du daulphin, & de plusieurs autres de son espece
Pierre Belon's 1551 natural history of strange marine fishes, printed in Paris by Regnaud Chaudiere, is a Renaissance zoological treatise on dolphins and related sea creatures, written for scholars and naturalists. Its woodcut illustrations show fish and dolphins in side profile, with fine hatched shading, dense scale patterns and spiny fins that a designer could borrow for botanical or sea-life linework.
