Aromatum, et simplicium aliquot medicamentorum apud Indos nascentium historia:
Garcia de Orta's 1579 Latin treatise on aromatic and simple medicinal plants growing among the Indians, printed at Antwerp by the Plantin press for a learned European readership of physicians and botanists. Its four woodcuts show plant fruits and seeds drawn in close outline, with hatched shading that gives each form its volume, a method a designer could borrow for botanical line work.
