Unusual and imaginative illustrations, carefully arranged into 4 major divisions — quadrupeds, birds, fishes, and insects — include realistic and fanciful depictions of virtually every real animal, plus such fantasy creatures as unicorns, dragons and basilisks
^Dover Pictorial Archive: 1300 Real and Fanciful Animals : From Seventeenth-Century Engravings by Matthäus Merian (1998, Paperback)ISBN 9780486402376 (revised Mar 2018)
^1300 Real And Fanciful Animals: From Seventeenth-century EngravingsIndigo. ISBN 9780486402376 (revised May 2018)
^Matthäus Merian (the Younger) (1998). 1300 Real and Fanciful Animals from Seventeenth-Century Engravings (Dover Pictorial Archive), Dover Publications. Amazon. ISBN 9780486402376 (revised Mar 2015)