Histoire generale des plantes : contenant XVIII livres egalement de partis en deux tomes
This is a 1653 Lyon botanical treatise by Jacques Dalechamps, revised by Jean Desmoulins, cataloguing plants and their medicinal uses for physicians and herbalists. The four woodcuts show whole plants with roots, leaves, flowers and seed heads drawn in crisp, hatched black line on a warm paper ground, with small insects scattered in the margins, a model for clear natural-history diagrams and decorative botanical borders.
