Description du jardin royal des plantes médecinales étably par le roi Louis le Juste à Paris, contenant le catalogue des plantes qui y sont de présent cultivées, ensemble le plan du jardin
A 1636 Paris printed description of the royal medicinal plant garden, written by Guy de La Brosse for its patrons and botanists, with a catalogue of the plants then grown there. The single picture is an engraved bird's-eye plan of the garden, with formal beds laid out in geometric blocks, a palace building at the back, and an ornate cartouche with text in the upper left. A designer could draw on its symmetrical parterre layout, dense hatched planting patterns, and decorative frame for garden or formal map graphics.
