Diccionario historico de los mas ilustres profesores de las bellas artes en Expana: D - J
This is a Spanish-language dictionary of the most distinguished professors of the fine arts in Spain, volume D to J, compiled by Juan Agustín Ceán Bermúdez and published in 1800; the record notes it belongs to the Cicognara collection held by Heidelberg University Library. The two pictures are library ownership seals rather than book illustrations: a crowned heraldic shield in a circle reading Universitäts-Bibliothek Heidelberg, and a neoclassical seal with a crowned hand holding a torch-like staff, laurel wreath, crossed swords, and the Latin motto Non coronabitur nisi legitime certaverit. A designer might take from them the compact circular seal format and the engraved heraldic and emblematic motifs.
