Historia naturalis Brasiliae : auspicio et beneficio illustriss. I. Mauriti Com. Nassau illius provinciae et maris summi praefecti adornata : in qua non tantum plantae et animalia, sed et indigenarum morbi, ingenia et mores describuntur et iconibus supra quingentas illustrantur
Historia naturalis Brasiliae is a 1648 natural history of Brazil compiled by Willem Piso and Georg Marggraf with Joannes de Laet, printed by Louis Elzevir in Leiden and Amsterdam for a learned European readership. Its pictures are small, plain woodcut-style botanical studies of branches, leaves and seed heads, drawn with dense hatching and outline, which a designer could draw on for simple botanical line motifs.
