An ornate woodcut headpiece features a central grotesque mask or stylized face, from which two cornucopias sprout, overflowing with fruit and floral elements, all framed by scrolling foliage.

PREFACE.

A large decorative woodcut initial 'P' depicts a landscape with a country church or chapel featuring a tall steeple and a small adjacent building, set among trees with tiny figures of people in the foreground.

Through the travels
and studies of our most celebrated
ANTONIUS MICHELI original: "ANTONII MICHELII",
the Florentine Garden owed countless
and rarest plants, of which it was very
rich, and, priding itself on these, it was
raised above the other gardens of Europe,
so that it was able to excite the admiration
of all. Countless plants native to the
Etruscan territory and less known in that
age were enumerated there, which, by the
assiduous efforts of MICHELI, and
from there...