Sphaera civitatis
Sphaera civitatis is a 1588 Oxford treatise on political science by John Case, printed by Joseph Barnes for scholars and students of Aristotle's political thought. Its pictures are mostly typographic: a dense printed page with a Latin heading, a decorative woodcut border around a book and crowns, an ornamental initial letter, and a concentric circle diagram of the state headed by a crowned female figure, a layout a designer could borrow for emblematic or diagrammatic work.
