"Ichnographical" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Xista, and subdiales ambulationes (which were portico's open to the air) they planted groves and walks of platans, to refresh and shade the Palaestritae; as you have them describ'd by Vitruvius, lib. 5. cap. 11. and as Claudius Perrault has assisted the text, with a figure, or ichnographical plot. These trees{215:1} the Romans first brought out of the Levant, and cultivated with so much industry and cost, for their stately and proud heads only, that great orators and states-men, Cicero and ...
— Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) - Or A Discourse of Forest Trees • John Evelyn |
