De profanis, et sacris veteribvs ritibvs
This is a Latin treatise on ancient profane and sacred rites by Giovanni Battista Casali (1578-1648), printed in Rome in 1665 by the Andrea Fei press for scholars of antiquity and religious history. Its woodcut pictures are small, simple engravings of ritual and everyday objects, including a flowered urn with scrolled handles, a cut-stone or ritual block, and a cat on a handled stand, which a designer might use for compact, decorative line motifs with hatched shading.
