Prosperi Alpini De plantis Aegypti liber : In quo non pauci, qui circa herbarum materiam irrepserunt, errores, deprehenduntur, quorum causa hactenus multa medicamenta ad vsum medicin[ae] admodum expetenda, plerisque medicorum, non sine artis iactura, occulta, atque obsoleta iacuerunt : accessit etiam liber de balsamo aliàs editus

Alpini, Prosper, 1553-1617, author · 1592 · Venetiis : Apud Franciscum de Franciscis Senensem · 17 pictures

Prosper Alpini's 1592 Latin botanical treatise on Egyptian plants, printed in Venice by Francesco de Franciscis for physicians and herbal scholars, corrects earlier errors about medicinal herbs and adds a work on balsam. Its pictures are small woodcut ornaments: a repeated cartouche with a female mask and foliage swags, and a historiated initial P filled with scrolling acanthus, useful for border, frame, and initial-letter ideas.

Botany -- Egypt -- Early works to 1800 · Botany -- Egypt -- Pictorial works -- Early works to 1800 · Balsams -- Early works to 1800 · Medicinal plants -- Egypt -- Early works to 1800 · Balsams · Botany · Medicinal plants · Egypt

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