Aromatum, et simplicium aliquot medicamentorum apud Indos Nascentium historia:
A 1593 Latin treatise on Indian medicinal aromatics and drugs by Garcia de Orta, printed at Antwerp by the Plantin press for scholars and physicians. Its pictures are small woodcut devices, decorative initials, a dense arabesque panel and a botanical plate of a clove tree with leaves, flowers and fruit, offering a designer period ornament, typographic capitals and botanical line drawing to adapt.




