Synopsis methodica animalium quadrupedum et serpentini generis : vulgarium notas characteristicas, rariorum descriptiones integras exhibens : cum historiis & observationibus anatomicis perquam curiosis : praemittuntur nonnulla De animalium in genere, sensu, generatione, divisione, &c.
A 1693 London zoological synopsis by naturalist John Ray, cataloguing quadrupeds and snakes with anatomical observations, printed for booksellers Smith and Walford and later owned by American collector Jonathan Dwight. The first picture is an ornate bookplate with a wreath border, an open book and a dove, while the second is a seventeenth-century oval portrait of Ray within a laurel frame over a scrolled Latin caption; a designer might borrow the laurel-wreath framing and the engraved lettering.
