Caspari Commelin ... Horti Medici ... plantae rariores et exoticae
A 1706 Latin botanical plate book by Caspar Commelin, published in Amsterdam, cataloguing rare and exotic plants from the Hortus Medicus, intended for botanists and collectors of natural history. Its engravings show single plants drawn in fine crosshatched line on plain paper with a ground line, labelled with Latin captions across the top, giving designers a precise model for botanical line work and tidy specimen layouts.
