Aromatum, et simplicium aliquot medicamentorum apud Indos nascentium historia : ante biennium quidem Lusitanica lingua per dialogos conscripta
A 1567 Latin edition of Garcia de Orta's study of aromatic and simple medicinal plants of India, first written as Portuguese dialogues, printed at Antwerp by Christophe Plantin with notes by Carolus Clusius for physicians and botanists. Its woodcuts show individual drugs and plant parts drawn in dense hatched line: a heart-shaped seed or fruit, a rounded pod with a stalk, a sprouting root with grass-like leaves, and an oval seed with lettering-like markings, offering a designer dense hatching and organic silhouettes to study.
