Hortus Indicus Malabaricus ?continens regni Malabarici apud Indos cereberrimi onmis generis plantas rariores, Latinas, Malabaricis, Arabicis, Brachmanum charactareibus hominibusque expressas ... /adornatus per Henricum van Rheede, van Draakenstein, ... et Johannem Casearium ... ; notis adauxit, & commentariis illustravit Arnoldus Syen ...

Almeloveen, Theodoor Jansson ab,, Boom, Henrik & Dirk., Casearius, Johannes,, Commelin, Johannes,, Dyck, Jan van., Munniks, Johannes,, Poot, Abraham van,, Reede tot Drakestein, Hendrik van,, Someren, Joannes van., Syen, Arnold, · 1678 · Amstelaedami : sumptibus Johannis van Someren, et Joannis van Dyck, · 23 pictures

Hortus Indicus Malabaricus is a 1678 Amsterdam botanical flora of Malabar plants, compiled by Henrik van Rheede with Casearius and Commelin and published by van Someren and van Dyck for scholars and collectors. Its pages show large decorative historiated initials, leafy foliate ornament and dense Latin text set in justified columns, offering a designer examples of seventeenth-century letterforms framed by vine scrolls and acanthus-like foliage.

1637?-1691 · 17th century · Botany · Copper engraving · Graphic media: · History · India · Malabar Coast · Malabar Coast (India) · Pictorial works · Plants · Portraits · Reede tot Drakestein, Hendrik van · Uncolored

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