Historia generalis plantarum : in libros XVIII per certas classes artificiose digesta, Haec plusquam mille imaginibus plantarum locupletior superioribus, omnes propemodum quae ab antiquis scriptoribus, Graecis, Latinis, Arabibus, nominantur: necnon eas quae in orientis atque Occidentis partibus, ante seculum nostrum incognitis, repertae fuerunt, tibi exhibet ; habes etiam earundem plantarum peculiaria diversis nationibus nomina: habes amplas descriptiones, è quibus singularum genus, formam, ubi crescant et quo tempore vigeant, natiorum temperamentum, vires denique in Medicina proprias cognosces.
Historia generalis plantarum is a 1586 Latin herbal compiled by Jacques Dalechamps and printed at Lyon by Guillaume Rouillé, arranging more than a thousand plants into classes for physicians and students of medicine. Its woodcuts show whole plants with roots, flowers, and separate detail sprigs, drawn in a dense, hatched line style that suits botanical reference work, scientific diagrams, and vintage specimen layouts.
