Zedoary root 1, coffee tree wood 2, Lignum vitae 3, aconite or wolfsbane root 4, culilaban root 5, turmeric or Indian saffron 6, zuurzak 7 and red vine wood 8. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Jan Christian Sepp from Martinus Houttuyn’s Icones Lignorum exoticorum et nostratium: Wood Science, Representations of Native and Exotic Woods, Sepp, Amsterdam, Holland, 1773.

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