1300 Real and Fanciful Animals : From Seventeenth-Century Engravings

[IMPORTED BOOKS] A painter whose father was an engraver and publisher of the same name, Matthaus Merian (1621 1687) published this remarkable group of unusual and highly imaginative animal illustrations. This copyright-free collection includes a large and fascinating selection of engravings that illustrate scientific specimens and legendary creatures all meticulously reproduced from an extremely rare eighteenth-century edition. Carefully arranged into six major divisions (quadrupeds, snakes, mollusks and crustaceans, fish, birds, and insects), approximately 1,300 copyright-free images include realistic and fanciful portrayals of a varied array of real animals, in addition to such imaginary creatures as unicorns, dragons, basilisks...show more Penulis: Matthaeus Merian Penerbit: Dover Publications Inc. Dimensi Buku: 9 x 303 x 7.87mm Jumlah Halaman: 144 pages ISBN: 9780486402376 Beli buku hanya di Kerajaan Buku ^.^