Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des plantes
Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des plantes is a 1686 botanical treatise published in Paris by the Imprimerie royale and written by Denis Dodart, probably for scholars and royal academicians studying plants. Its engraved plates show whole plants with roots, stems, leaves and flower heads drawn in fine line on plain paper, a clear model for botanical layouts where a designer could borrow the precise linework, the isolated specimen placement and the Latin and French captions set beneath each figure.
