Breslau Cabinet of Natural and Artificial Curiosities

Perhaps an occasion will be given to add these things and to enrich everything with fuller details, especially since I have appended the delineation and description of those things which are rare and seldom found elsewhere, in the Breslau Collection of Physical-Medical events occurring each year; likewise, I will add more in the Examination of Fossils and Figured Stones which is about to appear. Farewell in the meantime and look kindly

() Thus was published the Gottwaldian Museum* original: "Museum Gottwaldianum" in Gdansk, 1714, in octavo. The Diluvian Museum which Johann Jakob Scheuchzer possesses in Zurich, 1716, in octavo. A catalog of numerous useful and strange rarities formed by Nature and Art in the Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral Kingdoms by Dr. Christian Maximilian Spener in Berlin, 1718, octavo. A catalog of Mineral and Metallic things which Georg Gothofred Richter collected, in Freiberg, 1719, octavo. A catalog of the Dutch pastor Willem d'Orville of Haarlem, containing an excellent Cabinet of horns, shells, and rare sea growths, beautiful agate, carnelian, tree-stone, and other noble stones, in Amsterdam, 1722, octavo. All of which museums, except for the highly readable Scheuchzerian collection, have been exposed to public auction.

A decorative woodcut vignette features two winged putti or cherubs flanking a central oval cartouche. The cherubs kneel and support the cartouche, which contains three crescent or shell-like motifs arranged two over one. The cartouche is surmounted by a crown, and large palm fronds extend symmetrically from behind the central element.