DEDICATION.

recommending you most faithfully into the all-governing protection of God. Given in Frankfurt am Main, on the first day of February original: Hornung; an archaic German term for the month of February, often associated with the shedding of antlers, in the year of our Salvation, sixteen hundred forty-eight.

To my favorable and much-honored gentlemen, one and all,

Your devoted servant,

Johann Hüttner, citizen and bookseller in that place original: daselbst; referring back to the city of Frankfurt am Main.