Recherches sur l'usage des feuilles dans les plantes : et sur quelques autres sujets relatifs à l'histoire de la vegetation
Charles Bonnet's 1754 botanical treatise on leaves, printed at Leiden for a learned readership of naturalists and scholars, with its plates held at the Getty Research Institute. The engraved plates show plant stems with leaves attached, detailed botanical studies of leaf structure, and a sprig of flowering stems drawn in fine line with careful shading, offering a designer clear models of precise natural-history draughtsmanship and leaf-pattern layout.
