Prodromos Theatri botanici Caspari Bauhini basileens ... : in quo plantæ supra sexcentæ ab ipso primum descriptæ cum plurimis figuris proponuntur.
Prodromos Theatri botanici is a 1620 botanical catalogue by the Basel physician and botanist Caspar Bauhin, printed in Frankfurt am Main, that describes over six hundred plants, many for the first time, with woodcut figures for the academic botanists of its day. The four pictures show single plants drawn in plain outline on a warm paper ground, with stems, leaves and flower heads set out separately and clearly labelled, giving a designer a direct model for naturalistic botanical line work, simple specimen layouts and cropped plant studies.
