Die Philosophie der Alten wiederkommend in der güldenen Zeit : worinnen von den unsichtbaren Anfängen des spiritus rectoris oder bildenden Geists in den Pflanzen ... gehandelt wird
A German philosophical treatise by Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, published in 1762 by an unnamed publisher, concerning the hidden origins of the vital formative spirit in plants. The single picture is a printed ornamental headpiece, a dense interlaced knotwork of looping black strokes with small dotted lozenges at the centre and a stemmed finial below, suggesting a designer could borrow its symmetrical interlace for border or monogram work.
