Nouvelles de la république des lettres. March - July 1684.
A 1684 periodical of letters and learned news, printed in Amsterdam by H. Desbordes for a readership of scholars and the Republic of Letters. Its pictures are small woodcut-style ornaments of a flower cluster with spiky petals and wing-like leaves, plus a sparse diagram of circles and lines printed with dense text around them. A designer might take the botanical cluster as a compact spot ornament and the diagram as a model for schematic line work.
