Historiae animalium Liber III qui est de avium natura. Adjecti sunt ab initio indices alphabetici decem super nominibus avium in totidem linguis diversis : & ante illos enumeratio avium eo ordine quo in hoc volumine continentur
This is a 1555 Latin natural history volume on birds, the third book of Conrad Gesner's Historiae animalium, printed by Christoph Froschauer at Zurich for scholars and naturalists. Its pictures are small woodcut bird portraits set into dense printed text, each showing a single bird in profile with fine hatching for plumage and a simple ground line, a model for a designer studying early scientific bird illustration and compact figure drawing.
