Hortvs medicvs et philosophicvs : in qvo plvrimarvm stirpivm breves descriptiones, novæ icones non paucæ, indicationes locorum natalium, observationes de cultura earum peculiares, atque insuper nonnulla remedia euporista, nec non philologica quædam continentur
A 1588 Latin botanical handbook by Joachim Camerarius and Johannes Thal, printed at Frankfurt am Main by Feyerabend for physicians, apothecaries and students of plants. Its pages pair brief Latin descriptions with woodcut plant portraits showing stems, leaves, flowers, seed pods and roots drawn in fine, even outline with little shading. A designer could borrow the clean botanical line, the numbered plate headings and the simple specimen layouts for vintage natural-history motifs.
