Hyaena odorifera
Hyaena Odorifera is a 1638 natural history book by Pietro Castelli, printed in Messina by the widow of J.F. Bianco, on the civet-like animals and their scent glands. Its four engravings show an animal figure, a labelled anatomical diagram, a spotted animal climbing a branch, and a portrait of the author. Designers might take from them the crisp hatched line work of 17th-century copperplate, with the dense shading that gives fur and body volume.
