Conr. Gesneri Tigurini, medicinae et philosophiae professoris in Schola Tigurina, Historiae animalium liber III : qui est De auium natura
Historiae animalium liber III, the third volume of Conrad Gessner's natural history of animals, is a Latin ornithology printed at Frankfurt in 1585 by the Wechel press for scholars and physicians. Its woodcut birds are shown in profile or three-quarter views with dense hatching, and a designer might take their simple, stiff, schematic stance and fine parallel-line shading as models for vintage natural history plates.
