Aurum superius & inferius aurae superioris & inferioris hermeticum
A 1675 alchemical treatise by Christian Adolf Balduin, published with the sponsorship of Georg Heinrich Frommann, whose pages are a mix of printed Latin text and decorative woodcut and engraved emblems. The pictures are dense, symmetrical ornaments and a hermetic diagram, with scrollwork, grotesque faces, a large decorated initial, and a circular emblem of an enclosed altar-like structure flanked by sun, moon and planetary symbols. A designer could draw on these for period ornament, cartouche framing, and esoteric symbolism.
