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Remberti Dodonaei mechliniensis medici De frugum historia.

Dodoens, Rembert,, Ioannis Loei. · 1552 · V. Antverpiae : Ex officina Ioannis Loei, · 10 pictures

A 1552 Latin treatise on grains and pulses by the Mechelen physician Rembert Dodoens, printed in Antwerp by Joannes Loe for botanists and physicians. Its pages are dense black-letter type with large decorative initial letters and small woodcut plant figures in the margins, offering a designer ideas for historical typography, ornamental capitals and tidy small-scale botanical marks.

Early works to 1800 · History · Plants, Edible

Internet Archive · Missouri Botanical Garden · Public domain (published before 1931) · More from this library