Athanasii Kircheri è Soc. Jesu Arca Noë, in tres libros digesta : quorum I, De rebus quae ante diluvium : II, De iis, quae ipso diluvio ejusque duratione : III, De iis, quae post diluvium a Noëmo gesta sunt : quae omnia novâ methodo, nec non summa argumentorum varietate, explicantur & demonstrantur
Athanasius Kircher's 1675 Latin treatise on Noah's ark and the Flood, published in Amsterdam by Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge for scholarly readers, with illustrations attributed to Cornelis Decker. The three birds shown are woodcut engravings set on branches or perches, with fine hatched shading across the plumage and a plain background, suggesting a designer could draw on their clear contour and tonal modelling for natural-history or heraldic motifs.
