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Pluche's 1740 German-language volume one of a multi-volume natural history and mythology work, held by Heidelberg University Library. Its plates are dense engraved pages of classical and allegorical figures, including a winged angel, a mermaid-like sea figure, a seated crowned ruler with a lyre, a standing warrior with a hound, and a sarcophagus, all with small numbered keys and German captions. A designer could draw on the layered framing of oval vignettes, numbered figure labels and dense black-and-white engraved hatching.
