De animalibus insectis libri septem : cum singulorum iconibus ad viuum expressis / autore Ulysse Aldrovando ... ; ad sereniss: Franc. Mariam Secundum ...

Aldrovandi, Ulisse, 1522-1605? · 1602 · Bonon [Bologna] : apud Ioan: Bapt: Bellagambam · 514 pictures

A 1602 natural history treatise on insects by Ulisse Aldrovandi, printed in Bologna for the Duke of Mantua, Francesco Maria II. The four pictures are decorative woodcut initial letters, E, F, I and a partly visible B, built from interlaced scrollwork, foliage and cut-away shading that a designer could borrow for ornamental capitals.

Insects -- Early works to 1800 · Zoology -- Pre-Linnean works · Natural history -- Pre-Linnean works · Starfishes -- Pre-Linnean works

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