In Antwerp in 1588, Christopher Plantin printed a book with the imposing title Sancti Patris Nostri Epiphanii, Episcopi Constantiae Cypri, ad Physiologum. Eiusdem in die festo Palmarum sermo. Its Physiologus is a a set of moralized animal stories which were the basis of the medieval bestiary. It's not a natural history; it's a Christian text.
(https://spcoll.library.uvic.ca/Digit/physiologum/introduction.htm, https://spcoll.library.uvic.ca/Digit/physiologum/commentary/animal.htm)