1300 REAL AND FANCIFUL ANIMALS

Matthäus Merian was a painter who published this remarkable group of illustrations of real scientific specimens and legendary creatures which are meticulously reproduced from an extremely rare eighteenth-century edition. The copyright-free collection includes six major divisions of real animals (quadrupeds, snakes, mollusks & crustaceans, fish, birds, insects) plus a myriad of mythical beasts such as unicorns, dragons, basilisks, harpies, and griffins. Latin captions on most illustrations.