Nicolai Stenonis de Solido intra solidum naturaliter contento dissertationis prodromus...
A 1669 Florentine printed treatise by the Danish anatomist Nicolas Steno, issued from the Stella press and written for natural philosophers and scholars of anatomy and crystallography. Its pictures are small black-and-white woodcut ornaments, a decorative fringed cartouche, an ornate initial letter, and a plate of geometric crystal faces drawn in fine line with hatched shading, offering a designer ready models for border bands, drop-cap frames, and technical diagrams.
