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Profius, Gottlieb, 1654-1707 · 1682 · Jenae : Literis Krebsianis · 1 picture

This is a Latin medical dissertation by Gottlieb Profius, printed at Jena in 1682 for academic readers of medicine. The one picture is a page of dense black-letter-style text, with a large decorative initial and a centred chapter heading in display type, which a designer might take as a model for historic typographic hierarchy and ornamental capitals.

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