Joh. Salom. Semlers Erleuterung der egyptischen Altertümer, durch Uebersetzung der Schrift Plutarchs von der Isis und dem Osiris und der Nachricht von Egypten aus Herodots zweitem Buch mit beigefügten Anmerckungen
A German scholarly work of 1748 edited by Johann Salomo Semler, with a preface by Siegmund Jakob Baumgarten, offering annotated translations of Plutarch on Isis and Osiris and Herodotus on Egypt for antiquarian readers. Its two pictures are small decorative headpieces in black ink on cream paper, one showing a central urn or lamp flanked by scrolling foliage and acanthus-like curls, the other a figure within a symmetrical bouquet of leaves, flowers and buds; a designer could draw on their centred, mirror-symmetric ornament for vignettes and dividers.
