Hortus Indicus Malabaricus ?continens regni Malabarici apud Indos cereberrimi onmis generis plantas rariores, Latinas, Malabaricis, Arabicis, Brachmanum charactareibus hominibusque expressas ... /adornatus per Henricum van Rheede, van Draakenstein, ... et Johannem Casearium ... ; notis adauxit, & commentariis illustravit Arnoldus Syen ...
Hortus Indicus Malabaricus is a 1678 Dutch botanical flora of Malabar plants, compiled by Henrik van Rheede and edited by Johannes Commelin and others, published in Amsterdam for a scholarly readership. Its pages show large decorative woodcut initials with dense foliage scrolls and botanical text in small serif type, offering a designer ideas for ornamental capitals, leaf-and-tendril borders and framed historical typography.











































