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Commentariis in libellum Theophrasti de vertigine

Baillou, Guillaume de, Thévart, Jacques (éd.) · 1640 · Parisiis : apud Iacobum Quesnel · 9 pictures

A Latin medical commentary on Theophrastus's treatise on vertigo, written by the physician Guillaume de Baillou and edited by Jacques Thévart, printed in Paris in 1640 by Jacques Quesnel for a learned medical readership. Its pictures are small woodcut ornaments: flower-filled roundels framed by leaves, and a heraldic cartouche with fleur-de-lis flanked by mythical lion-like creatures, offering a designer compact baroque ornament and symmetrical border motifs.

La médecine pratique à l'époque moderne · Baillou

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