Poème philosophic de la verité de la phisique mineralle ...
A 1620 French alchemical poem, the Poème philosophic de la verité de la phisique mineralle, by Clovis Hesteau, sieur de Nuisement, published in Paris by Jeremie Perier and Abdias Buisard and held in C.G. Jung's library. The two pictures are a symmetrical woodcut ornament of a central face flanked by plumed scrolls and tassels, and a black-and-gold bookplate for C.G. Jung with a winged angel above a heraldic shield, a star and cross, and a Latin motto. A designer might take the balanced, mirrored ornament and the heraldic shield-and-banner layout as models for symmetrical emblems and bookplates.
