Nemesii Philosophi clarissimi de Natura hominis liber utilisssimus. Georgio Valla placentino interprete
A 1538 Lyon printing by Sebastian Gryphius of Nemesius's philosophical treatise on human nature, translated from Greek into Latin by Giorgio Valla of Piacenza, and aimed at scholars and physicians. The pictures are a historiated initial, a printer's device with a griffin on a pedestal set in ornamental scrollwork, and a woodcut griffin standing on a ground line with curling tail, offering designers Renaissance letterforms, heraldic ornament and a fantastic beast motif.
