Natural magick,

Porta, Giambattista della, approximately 1535-1615, Pre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress), McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress) · 1658 · London, Printed for T. Young and S. Speed, 1658. · 19 pictures

Natural Magick is a 1658 London scientific treatise by the Neapolitan natural philosopher Giambattista della Porta, printed for the booksellers T. Young and S. Speed for readers of experimental science and the industrial arts. Its pictures are small woodcut decorated initial letters framed in strapwork and foliage, plus a few diagrams of stone-like shapes, which a designer could draw on for ornamental capitals, border patterns, and hatched line work.

Early works to 1800 · Industrial arts · Science

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