Dissertatio de foenore trapezitico, in tres libros divisa
A Latin treatise on banking interest by Claude Saumaise, published in Leiden in 1640 by the Elzevir-era printer I. Maire, written for scholars and readers of economic and legal history. Its pictures are small decorative woodcut initials, each a letter framed in scrolling foliage, cartouches and strapwork with hatched shading, useful to a designer seeking historic letterforms and ornamental border motifs.
