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Histoire des drogues espiceries, et de certains medicamens simples, qui naissent és Indes, tant Orientales que Occidentales, : diuisée en deux parties. : La premiere composee de trois liures:

Orta, Garcia de, active 16th century · 1602 · A Lyon, Par Iean Pillehotte, à l'enseigne du nom de Iesus. · 41 pictures

A 1602 Lyon edition of Garcia de Orta's account of drugs, spices and simple medicines from the East and West Indies, printed in French for physicians and apothecaries. Its pages pair woodcut botanical plates of plants with running French text, and the plates show plants drawn with clear outlines and small insects and snakes placed around them, useful for designers wanting early botanical line drawings.

Materia medica

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