Bibliotheca chemico-curiosa, D. Mangeti enucleata ac illustrata. Das ist: Kern und Stern, der vornehmsten chymisch-philosophischen Schrifften, die in D. Mangeti Bibliotheca chemico-curiosa befindlich seynd ... / abegetheilet und heraus gegeben durch Conrad. Horlachern.
A 1707 Frankfurt alchemy anthology edited by Conrad Horlacher from Jean-Jacques Manget's chemical bibliography, aimed at chemists and learned readers in German-speaking lands. The four pictures are a repeated woodcut ornament of a symmetrical plant sprig: three buds or flowers rising from spreading serrated leaves, printed in black on cream paper. A designer could take a compact, balanced botanical border motif from its rhythm of repetition and its bold, crisp line.
