Hypothesis ethike De officiis secundum naturæ jus : seu De moribus ad rationis normam conformandis doctrina. Unde casus omnes conscientiæ ... judicari possint. Ethnicorum simul & jure, praesertim civili, consultorum consensus ostenditur, principia item & rationes Hobbesii Malmesburiensis ad ethicam & politicam spectantes, quatenus huic hypothesi contradicere videantur, in examen veniunt ...
This is a 1660 Latin treatise on natural law and ethics by Robert Sharrock, printed at Oxford by Thomas Robinson for scholars and students of moral philosophy, later owned by John Adams and Jeremiah Gridley. The four pictures are small printers' ornaments: a fleur-de-lis inside a Q frame, a heraldic M block with scrolled grotesque sides, a G cartouche with leafy borders, and a Q in a scrolled panel, offering a designer models of compact letter-initial frames.
