Ueber thierischen Magnetismus. In einem Brief an Herrn Geheimen Rath Hoffmann in Mainz / Von Eberhard Gmelin.
A German treatise on animal magnetism, written by Eberhard Gmelin as a letter to the Mainz official Christoph Ludwig Hoffmann and published in Tübingen in 1787. The four pictures are small printer's ornaments of the period: a cartouche framing a profile medallion, a rose and foliage sprig, a shell-backed panel with a flower garland, and a scrolled plaque with a linked oval and rosettes. Their scrolled cartouches, garlands and bouquets offer a designer models of late eighteenth-century Rococo and Neoclassical decorative vocabulary for headers, dividers and frames.
