(Band 7): Siebentes Hundert
This is a German natural history volume from 1807 by Johann Matthäus Bechstein, part of a multi-volume series of hand-coloured plates from Heidelberg University Library. The pictures are copperplate-style engravings with watercolour tinting, showing shells in cross-section and other specimens on plain backgrounds, with German and Latin labels and numbered figures. A designer might take from them the precise linework, fine stippled and banded surface patterns, and muted natural palette of early scientific illustration.
