Animadversiones in librum Prae-Adamitarum. : In quibus confutatur nuperus scriptor, et primum omnium hominum fuisse Adamum defenditur.
A Latin polemic of 1656 printed in Paris by Jean Billaine, answering a writer who argued for humans existing before Adam, and addressed to learned readers of theology. Its three pictures are small woodcut decorations: a foliate strip with birds and foliage, a band of vines enclosing a figure among flowers and animals, and a large leafy woodcut initial M in a square frame. A designer could draw on the dense, interlaced leafwork and the crisp black-on-cream contrast of these early printers' ornaments.
