Abbildungen zu Oken's Allgemeiner Naturgeschichte für alle Stände
This is a German natural history plate atlas by Lorenz Oken, published in 1843 from Heidelberg University Library, meant for general readers of all social classes. Its pages are grids of hand-coloured and engraved specimens labelled with numbers, covering marine invertebrates, shells, worms, and small animal anatomy. A designer might draw on the tidy grid layouts, the mix of colour and monochrome plates, and the dense organic forms of sea creatures, shells, and worms arranged like specimen cabinets.
