Guilielmi Pisonis ... De medicina Brasiliensi libri qvatvor ... et Georgii Marcgravii de Liebstad Historiae rervm natvralivm Brasiliae, libri octo ... cum appendice de Tapuyis, et Chilensibvs J. de Laet ... in ordinem digessit & annotationes addidit, & varia ab auctore omissa supplevit & illustravit
A 1648 Latin natural history and medicine book by Willem Piso and Georgius Marcgravius, published in Leiden and Amsterdam, describing the plants, animals and remedies of Brazil for European physicians and naturalists. Its woodcut plates show botanical specimens drawn as single stems or sprays, set against plain paper with the printed text running around them, a clear and economical style a designer could borrow for botanical diagrams.
