Jakob Böhme und die Alchymisten : ein Beitrag zum Verständniss J. Böheme's Nebst einem Anhang: J.G. Gichtel's Leben und Irrthümer / von G.C. Adolf von Harless.
A German scholarly study from Berlin in 1870 by Gottlieb Christoph Adolf von Harless, examining the mystic Jakob Böhme against alchemists and his follower Johann Georg Gichtel, written for readers of theology and occult history. Its two pictures are small woodcut-style printer's devices: one shows a winged angel holding a cross above a shield with an open book, alpha and omega, and a chalice, flanked by grapevines; the other shows a shield with a tree, a staff topped by a book, a bell, and a fish, under the motto 'via veritas vita'. A designer could draw on their symmetrical heraldic layout, banded ribbons, and engraved line shading.
