An ornate woodcut headpiece featuring a central oval medallion. Inside the medallion is a landscape with a sunflower turned toward a radiant sun in the sky. The medallion is flanked by two winged putti nestled within elaborate acanthus leaf scrollwork. The putto on the left holds a stringed instrument, while the one on the right holds a small pair of scales.

Preface

For the second printing.

Since it has pleased the Providence of GOD to let this Libraryoriginal: "Bibliothec." In the early modern period, the word "library" often served as a title for a comprehensive collection of knowledge or a multi-volume series on a specific subject. find so much affection among its readers that the copies printed of the first part of the work have already mostly been sold, and the publisher has resolved to have the same printed for a second time;