Chirurgie françoise ... avec plusieurs figures des instrumens nécessaires pour l'opération manuelle
A 1610 Paris surgical treatise by Jacques Dalechamps, published by Olivier de Varennes, written for surgeons and printed in French with numbered woodcut plates of operating instruments. The pictures are small black-and-white line engravings of metal tools with ornate handles, set against pages of dense type, giving a designer a precise early-modern vocabulary of scrolled forms, hinges and tapered blades for historical or medical graphics.
