L'histoire naturelle des estranges poissons marins, avec la vraie peincture & description du daulphin, & de plusieurs autres de son espece
A 1551 Paris natural history of strange marine fishes by the naturalist Pierre Belon, printed by Regnaud Chaudiere and aimed at scholars and naturalists curious about sea life. The woodcut fish portraits, with their scaled bodies, fin rays and hand-tinted accents of red and ochre, show careful observational detail a designer could draw on for decorative sea-creature motifs and vintage natural history plates.
