Ansaldi de Ansaldis ... Discursus legales, de commercio, et mercatura: in quibus vniversa fere commercii, et mercatvrae materia resolutivè continetur. Cum indice argvmentorvm, cavsarvm, materiarvm, & rerum opulentissimo
A 1698 Latin legal treatise on commerce and trade law by the Genoese jurist Ansaldo Ansaldi, printed in Geneva by Jacopo Filippo Seminus for lawyers and merchants. Its pictures are woodcut printers' ornaments: a flower vase framed by scrolls repeated twice, a basket of flowers and fruit, and a tailpiece of two seated figures flanked by scrolling foliage and a putto. A designer could take from them dense, symmetrical floral woodcut motifs suited to period-style borders, headpieces and vignettes.
