[Title page of De arte venandi cum avibus, with pine tree and banner Honos erithuic quoqum pomo"]"

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The most distinctive element of this title page is the pine tree, which stands beside a banner bearing the Latin motto "Honos erit huic quoque pomo." The engraving introduces *De arte venandi cum avibus*, the treatise on falconry attributed to Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor in the thirteenth century, whose study of hunting birds remains one of the most important medieval works on the subject. This 1596 edition was issued in Augsburg, where the printer I. Praetorium produced it. Late sixteenth-century title pages like this one often combined symbolic plant imagery with classical mottoes to signal a book's learned character before a reader reached the text.

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