Istoria del camaleonte affricano, e di varj animali d'Italia
A 1715 Venetian natural history by the physician and naturalist Antonio Vallisnieri, covering the African chameleon and several Italian animals and insects, printed for a learned readership. The plates are copperplate engravings of plant galls on leaves, a cochineal-type insect's body with its scale-like coverings, and a chameleon's pale, bumpy skin pattern, with some pencil studies of objects in the set. A designer could take from them the dense cross-hatching, the fine stippled textures of the bumpy skin and gall surfaces, and the symmetrical specimen layouts typical of early scientific plates.
