Caroli Clusi Atrebatis, Impp. Caess. Augg., Maximiliani II, Rudolphi II, aulae quondam familiaris, Rariorum plantarum historia ?quae accesserint, proxima pagina docebit.
Rariorum plantarum historia is a 1601 Latin botanical treatise by Carolus Clusius, a court physician and botanist to Habsburg emperors, printed by the Plantin press in Antwerp for the publisher Ioannes Moretus. Its pictures are woodcut plant portraits, each specimen drawn whole from root to flower on a plain ground with a Latin name label, showing how early naturalists organised and captioned botanical sources. A designer could draw on their clean botanical line, the stylised leaf and flower forms, and the orderly layout of specimen plates.
