Theophrasti Eresii de Historia plantarum libri decem graece et latine. In quibus textum graecum..., latinam Gazae versionem... rariorum plantarum iconibus illustravit Joannes Bodaeus a Stapel,... Accesserunt Julii Caesaris Scaligeri in eosdem libros animadversiones, et Roberti Constantini annotationes...
Theophrastus's Historia plantarum, a Greek and Latin edition of the ancient botanical treatise published in Amsterdam in 1644 by H. Laurentius, with woodcut plant illustrations and commentary by Bodaeus a Stapel and Scaliger for scholars and physicians. The four pictures show single plants drawn whole, roots to flowering tips, with finely hatched leaves and stems printed against faint text, offering a designer examples of dense, precise botanical line work and how a complete specimen can be composed on an upright page.
