Pantometrum Kircherianum, hoc est, Instrumentum geometricum novum à celeberrimo viro P. Athanasio Kirchero ante hac inventum : nunc decem libris, universam paenè practicam geometriam complectentibus explicatum, perspicuisque demonstrationibus illustratum
A 1660 Latin treatise on practical geometry and surveying, printed at Würzburg and issued by a Frankfurt bookseller's heirs, with a Jesuit author's instrument described in ten books. The pictures are black-and-white letterpress pages: a symmetrical engraved cartouche with scrolling ornament repeated across pages, a large decorated initial S beside running Latin text, and a 'LIBER VI' heading set in capitals under a foliate band. A designer could take the dense scrolled cartouche and the decorated initial as models for strapwork, frame and drop-cap ornament.
