Recueil de voyages

Thévenot, Melchisédec, 1620-1692, Marquette, Jacques, 1637-1675, Tasman, Abel Janszoon, 1603?-1659, Baĭkov, F. I. (Fedor Isakovich), approximately 1612-1663 or 1664, Swammerdam, Jan, 1637-1680, Brown, Harold, 1863-1900. fmo RIBRL · 1681 · A Paris : Chez Estienne Michallet ruë S. Jaques à l'image S Paul · 10 pictures

Recueil de voyages is a 1681 Paris collection of travel accounts compiled by Melchisédec Thévenot and printed by Estienne Michallet for a French reading public, here with natural history plates of insects and marine creatures. The pictures are sober engravings of anatomical diagrams, segmented larvae and insect bodies drawn with fine hatching and lettered keys, plus a decorative cartouche, offering a designer clean scientific line work and an ornate baroque ornament to borrow from.

Navigation · Mayflies · Hermit crabs · Insects · Imprint 1681

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