Leonhard Baldner: Book on Fishes, Birds, and Mammals

The major work of early modern zoology with fascinating copperplate engravings by the gifted Matthäus Merian: John Johnston's influential encyclopedia on snakes and reptiles

The major work of early modern zoology with fascinating copperplate engravings by the gifted Matthäus Merian: John Johnston's influential encyclopedia on quadrupeds

New knowledge from the New World: a huge compendium of the hitherto unknown plants, animals, and minerals of South America with an 80-year origin story collected by the personal physician of Philip II of Spain

First published in 1985 as a facsimile edition: Olof Rudbeck's masterpiece of ornithology, adorned with magnificent full-page naturalistic illustrations of various European bird species

Handwritten over the course of 20 years by the fisherman, forester, and naturalist Leonhard Baldner: a magnificent scientific manuscript and one of the most important works of early modern zoology from the 17th century

More than eagles, ducks and bats: Conrad Gessner's multi-volume magnum opus on the entire known fauna of the Renaissance, here the birds and flying animals illustrated with over 200 impressive woodcuts