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Petri Bellonii Cenomani De aquatilibus, libri duo cum [epsilon, iota] conibus ad viuam ipsorum effigiem, quoad eius fieri potuit, expressis ..

Belon, Pierre, 1517?-1564, Fischer, P.-H. Sur les mollusques énumérés ou décrits par Pierre Bellon · 1553 · Parisiis, Apud C. Stephanum · 182 pictures

A 1553 Paris natural history of aquatic animals by the French naturalist Pierre Belon, printed by Charles Estienne for a scholarly readership of physicians and naturalists. Its pictures are small woodcut profiles of fish, each drawn in side view with carefully hatched scales and fins, offering a designer a model for engraved fish outlines and crosshatched modelling.

Fishes · Mollusks

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