Lo specchio vstorio, overo, Trattato delle settioni coniche, et alcvni loro mirabili effetti intorno al lume, caldo, freddo, suono, e moto ancora ...
Lo specchio vstorio is a 1632 treatise on conic sections and burning mirrors by Bonaventura Cavalieri, printed in Bologna by Clemente Ferroni for a scholarly readership. The pictures are small woodcut decorative initials and floral tailpieces, with black ink on cream paper, showing stylised leaves, scrolls and flowers that a designer could borrow for ornamental capitals or border motifs.
