(Pars Secunda): Metamorphoseos Et Historiæ Naturalis Pars Secunda, De Insectis: Latinitate donata, commentariis & notis, textui insertis, illustrata & Auctuario Notarum sive Appendice locupletata, De Insectorum Origine, Utilitate & usu a Paulo Veezaerdt
This is a 1667 Latin edition of Johannes Goedaert's natural history of insects, edited and annotated by Paulus Veezaerdt and others, held by Heidelberg University Library and aimed at scholars and naturalists. The hand-coloured plates show moths, a butterfly beside its chrysalis, a caterpillar-like pupa, and a fungus with spiders, drawn with careful outline and wash. A designer could take the tidy natural-history layout, the muted parchment tones, and the precise insect silhouettes as models for botanical or scientific reference styling.
