Henrici Cornelii Agrippae ab Nettesheym de incertitudine & vanitate omnium scientiarum & artium liber, lectu plane iucundus & elegans et de nobilitate et praecellentia foeminei sexus, eiusdemque supra virilem eminentia libellus, lectu etiam iucundissimus ...
A 1653 Latin treatise by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, printed by Adriaan Vlacq, a Dutch press, with a scholarly and general readership in mind. Its small woodcut ornaments show baskets of flowers and fruit, a flowering vase, and an emblematic cartouche with a motto, which suit designers seeking compact historical decorative motifs.
