A decorative headpiece composed of two rows of repeating floral fleurons. Below this, the dedication begins with various sizes of Roman and Italic type.

TO THE MOST ILLUSTRIOUS PRINCE

AND LORD,

LORD FREDERICK

DUKE OF WÜRTTEMBERG

AND TECK, COUNT OF MON-

TIS BELGARUM, LORD

IN SAXENHEIM, &c.

HIS MOST

CLEMENT LORD,

S. D. Sends greetings

Ornate woodcut initial "A" decorated with foliate scrolls and a central figure of a man.

For several years now, Most Illustrious Prince, Most Clement Lord, diligence has been applied by craftsmen in most faculties and liberal arts: so that individual treatises and books on specific subjects, elaborated by diverse authors and published separately at distinct times, might be brought together into one body and volume, and presented to the cultivators of individual arts and faculties. Indeed, this matter seems to have been undertaken for this primary purpose: that writings in individual sciences, which lay scattered and dispersed far and wide, and were not read without difficulty and expense, might be reduced into one volume in this manner, providing the entire apparatus of the whole art, or at least the chief part of it, as if in a very beautiful