Histoire des simples medicamens apportés de l'Amerique, desquels on se sert en la medecine.
A 1619 Lyon edition of a Latin-to-French herbal by Nicolás Monardes and Carolus Clusius, printed for readers of materia medica who needed to identify New World medicinal plants. The pictures are small black-and-white woodcut botanical plants on uncolored pages with French captions, showing stems, leaves and fruiting clusters drawn with fine hatching, offering a designer clear, economical models for line-drawn flora.
