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Catalogus plantarum Angliae, et insularum adjacentium: tum indigenas, tum in agris passim cultas complectens. In quo praeter synonyma necessaria, facultates quoque summatim traduntur, unà cum observationibus & experimentis novis medicis & physics

Ray, John, 1627-1705 · 1677 · Londini, typis A. Clark, impensis J. Martyn · 1 picture

A 1677 Latin botanical catalogue of the plants of England and nearby islands, by the naturalist John Ray, printed in London for a scholarly and medical readership. Its single picture is a page-corner woodcut-style plate of a flowering stem with pinnate leaves and a larger leaf below, printed with a page number in the top corner. A designer could take from it the crisp, hatched linework and the botanical specimen layout with lettered labels.

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