Michaelis Bernhardi Valentini prof. medici ... Polychresta exotica in curandis affectibus contumacissimis probatissima ... : ut et nova herniarum cura. Accedunt seorsim olim editae ... Dissertationes epistolicae varii argumenti ..
A 1700 Latin medical treatise by Michael Bernhard Valentini, published in Frankfurt am Main by Johann David Zunner, collecting remedies and a letter by Rudolf Jakob Camerarius on plant sexuality. The pictures are small printed woodcut ornaments: a large decorated initial D with flowers, a fragment of a figure beside a diagonal rule, a grotesque cartouche of putti, and a floral tailpiece. A designer could take from them the dense, crowded vocabulary of early modern printers' ornaments for borrowing in borders and capitals.
