Samuelis Pufendorfij De jure naturae et gentium libri octo
A 1672 Latin treatise on natural law and the law of nations by the German jurist Samuel Pufendorf, printed in Lund, Sweden, for a scholarly readership and later owned by John Adams. The four pictures are repeated decorative woodcut initial letter P's, each a large capital with dense interlaced scrollwork, leaf and flourish borders, and dark inked outlines on cream paper, useful for designers seeking ornamental capitals and historic letterforms.
