Due libri dell' historia de i semplici, aromati, et altre cose, che vengono portate dall' Indie Orientali, pertinenti alla medicina,
A 1576 Venetian printing of Garcia de Orta's herbal on drugs and spices brought from the East Indies, prepared for physicians and apothecaries and held by the John Carter Brown Library. The four woodcuts show dried, unusual natural materials set against plain page text, offering a designer simple, specimen-style studies of organic forms, textures and irregular shapes.
