Henrici Cornelii Agrippae ab Nettesheym De incertitudine et vanitate scientiarum declamatio invectiva, ex postrema authoris recognitione
A 1584 Latin treatise by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim on the uncertainty and vanity of the sciences, printed in Cologne by Theodor Baum for a scholarly readership. The first picture is a dense, symmetrical black ornamental panel of scrolls and fleurs-de-lis, and the second is an oval woodcut portrait of the author in a flat cap and fur collar, framed by his name in an inscribed border.
