Simplicium medicamentorum ex novo orbe delatorum, quorum in medicina vsus est, historia,

Monardes, Nicolás, approximately 1512-1588 · 1579 · Antverpiae : Ex officina Christophori Plantini, architypographi regij · 11 pictures

Simplicium medicamentorum is a 1579 Latin materia medica by Nicolás Monardes, printed at Antwerp by the Plantin press, describing New World drug plants for European physicians and apothecaries. Its woodcuts show seeds and nuts in outline and cut-away views, with hatched shading that a designer could borrow for botanical line work.

Botany -- Pre-Linnean works · Botany -- Latin America · Materia medica -- Latin America · Materia medica, Vegetable -- Latin America · Medicinal plants -- Latin America · Botany, Medical -- Latin America · Imprint 1579

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