Roberti Comtæi Nortmanni De origine gentium Americanarum dissertatio
A Latin dissertation by Robert Comtaeus, a Norman, printed at Amsterdam in 1644 by Nicolaas Ravesteyn, on the origins of the peoples of the Americas. The pictures are small woodcut and engraved ornaments: a laureate profile head inside a ringed medallion, a scrolled interlace panel, and a heraldic beast above a banner reading GAUDEO. A designer might take from them the scale of compact emblem-style devices that frame a title page or chapter opening.
