Antiqvitates Germaniae primae & in hac Argentoratensis ecclesiae evangelicae. Variis impressis & manu exaratis monumentis congestae & explicatae
A 1669 Latin antiquarian work printed at Strasbourg by J. F. Spoor, compiled by Balthasar Bebel on early German and Strasbourg church history, aimed at scholars and collectors of documents. Its pictures are small woodcut printer's ornaments: a grotesque mask within scrolling cartouche, a dense interlaced scroll panel, a sprouting tree with a banner, and an ornamental initial A, useful to a designer for period decorative vocabulary.




