*Browsing the Books*

Click the images below for a glance inside seventeenth-century illustrated books from Italy, Germany, and France. Book pages have been selected for their visual interest and appear out of order from the original texts. Browsing through the pages will give you a taste of the rich visual world these books evoke; to access the full-text versions, scan the QR codes. 

Mattia Giegher, Li Tre Trattati (Padua: Guaresco Guareschi al Pozzo dipinto, 1629).
Digitized by Universitätsbibliothek Basel.

Georg Philipp Harsdörffer, Vollständiges und von neuem vermehrtes Trincir-Buch (Nuremberg: Fürst, 1657).
Digitized by Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel.

De Sectione Mensaria (165?).
Digitized by gallica.bnf.fr / Bibliothèque nationale de France.

Jacques Vontet, L’Art de trancher la viande et toutte(s) sorte(s) de fruit(s) à la mode italienne et nouvellement à la françoise (Lyon, 1669).
Digitized by Biblioteka Jagiellońska.