Flora sinensis : fructus floresque humillime porrigens, serenissimo et potentissimo principi, ac domino, domino Leopoldo Ignatio, Hungariae regi florentissimo, &c. : fructus saeculo promittenti Augustissimos

Boym, Michał, 1612-1659 · 1656 · Viennae Austriae : Typis Matthaei Rictij · 12 pictures

Flora sinensis is a 1656 Latin botanical treatise on Chinese plants by Michał Boym, a Polish Jesuit missionary, printed in Vienna and dedicated to the young Hungarian king Leopold Ignatius. The pictures are letter-initial woodcut ornaments in black ink on cream paper, with floral scrollwork, grotesque figures and interlaced foliage framing large capitals, a useful model for decorative initials and early printed borders.

Botany · Plants · Natural history · Botany -- China -- Pre-Linnean works · Plants -- China -- Early works to 1800 · Natural history -- China -- Pre-Linnean works · Botanique -- Chine -- Ouvrages prélinnéens · Sciences naturelles -- Chine -- Ouvrages prélinnéens · Botanik -- Kina -- verk före 1800 · Zoologi -- Kina -- verk före 1800 · China

Internet Archive · University of South Florida Libraries · Public domain (published before 1931) · More from this library