Tomo sesto.
Volume six of an eighteenth-century Italian natural history series, held by the Eisenbibliothek Schlatt, with engraved plates for readers of natural philosophy. The plates show plant organs and germination, fossil ferns and leaf impressions, and fossil teeth, shells and marine fauna, drawn in fine black line with numbered and lettered keys. A designer might take the crisp hatched linework, the tidy plate-and-caption layout and the botanical diagram style for scientific or heritage graphics.
