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Danielis Sennerti Vratislaviensis, D. Et Medicinae In Academia Wittebergensi Profesessoris publici.

Sennert, Daniel, 1572-1637 · 1641 · Parisiis, Apud Societatem · 23 pictures

A 1641 Paris edition of medical and natural-history writings by Daniel Sennert, a professor at Wittenberg, aimed at scholars and physicians of the early modern period. Its pictures are letterpiece and decorative headpiece woodcuts: a large grotesque initial, a heraldic cartouche with winged beasts, and a frieze of scrolling leaves and birds, all printed over dense text, offering designers period ornament for borders, initials and page furniture.

Medicine -- Early works to 1800 · Natural history -- Pre-Linnean works · Chemistry -- Early works to 1800

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