Historia, sive descriptio plantarum omnium, tam domesticarum quam exoticarum ...
A 1578 Latin botanical treatise by Leonhard Thurneisser zum Thurn, printed in Berlin, cataloguing plants for physicians and herbalists. Its pictures are framed woodcut plant portraits, each a single specimen centred in an oval with roots and leafy stems, surrounded by ornate typographic borders, Hebrew labels and astrological symbols; a designer could take the symmetrical oval-cartouche layout and the dense decorative frames as models for botanical labels or packaging.
