Artificia Hominum Miranda Naturæ, in Sina & Evropa: ubi Eximia, Quæ à mortalium profecta sunt industrîa, sive Architectura spectetur, sive Politia. & Singvlaria, Quæ Sol uterq[ue] in visceribus terræ, aquarum varietate, radicum virtute, florum amænitate, montium portentis unquam produxit compendiosè proponuntur, Confervntvr. ad Creatoris. Laudem amplissimam
A 1656 illustrated compendium of wonders of nature and human craft in China and Europe, compiled by Adam Preyel and edited by Wilhelm Serlin and Georg Fickwirth, held by Heidelberg University Library. The first picture is an engraved title page with a cartouche, a scroll bearing the title, an eagle above, and two standing figures flanking the text, and the second is a dedicatory page of dense roman and italic type with a decorative initial, so a designer might draw on the framed baroque title layout and the ornate typographic hierarchy.
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