Recueil de voyages
Recueil de voyages is a 1681 French travel anthology compiled by Melchisédec Thévenot and printed in Paris by Estienne Michallet, gathering accounts of voyages for a learned and curious readership. Its plates are fine engraved studies of insect larvae, mayfly nymphs with feathery gills, and laboratory instruments such as a lens grid and glass tubes, drawn with crisp hatching that suits natural-history diagrams and scientific line art; the printed ornamental cartouche is a useful model for decorative frames.
