Prosperi Alpini De plantis Aegypti liber. In quo non pauci, qui circa herbarum materiam irrepserunt, errores, deprehenduntur, quorum causa hactenus multa medicamenta ad usum medicine admodum expetenda, plerisque medicorum, non sine artis iactura, occulta, atque obsoleta iacuerunt... Accessit etiam liber de balsamo aliàs editus
Prospero Alpino's 1592 Venetian herbal on the plants of Egypt, printed by Francesco de Franciscis for physicians and apothecaries, documents Egyptian medicinal flora. Its woodcut plates show single plants drawn whole with leaves, flowers and fruit, set above a Latin running title, offering a designer clear botanical line-art models.
