Description

Hand-colored engraving depicting two hammerhead sharks, one elevated in the air and the other with only its head emerging from the water. In the background is a small island with two single-masted ships moored by a ruined tower; further back is a coastal city and a mountain, and then the open sea. With an elaborate border, styled as a frame. Title printed in lower margin, in Latin and in German (this in blackletter typeface). From "Kupfer-Bibel, in welcher die Physica Sacra oder geheiligte Naturwissenschafft derer in der heiligen Schrifft vorkommenden natürlichen Sachen" by Johann Jakob Scheuchzer.