Early Herb & Gardening Books
Thomas Hill The Gardner's Labyrinth 1608
Lusitano Amato Dioscorides Anzarebei De medica materia 1558
You're
absolutely correct - not all these images really match the title. These
are just the ones that caught my eye from a large collection available
at an old Arizona State University website.
Durante Castore Herbario nuovo 1617
Hernando Francisco Rerum medicarum Novæ Hispaniæ thesaurus 1651
Pierre Pomet Histoire generale des drogues 1712
Doris
and Marc Patten donated their extensive set of herbal and gardening
books to Hayden Library at ASU and a large number of example images from
the collection have been digitized.
This is an excellent set of illustrations. Excellent.
There is even an outline of the publishing history and short review of
each author and their work. This may be a few years old and I'm sure
I've seen some of the images previously but this one is worth
recirculating periodically, even if it is known around the traps.
