(Band 9)
This is a German natural history picture book from 1816, compiled by Friedrich Justin Bertuch and Carl Bertuch for a general readership, as one volume of their multi-volume encyclopedia of animals. The plates are hand-coloured engravings of turtles, swifts and nests, annelid worms, and a rodent, each figure numbered and set on a parchment-toned page. A designer can take from them the clear, labelled scientific layout, with specimens drawn in careful outline and soft watercolour-like tints against plain ground.
