Amphithéâtre d'honneur dressé par la France, a la memoire du seigneur Joseph Balsamo...en faveur du secret merveilleux par luy inventé, & de ses rares et singulieres proprietez contre diverses maladies & infirmités du corps humain divisé en quatre livres...
A 1638 French medical treatise printed at Toulouse by Arnaud Colomiez, issued in honour of Joseph Balsamo and his secret remedy against bodily illnesses, held by the Bibliothèque interuniversitaire de santé in Paris. The pictures are a historiated initial letter set in the text and a title page: ornate woodcut initials with figures, foliage and scrollwork, and an engraved architectural arch with a crowd and vignettes of towns, useful for decorative lettering and framing ideas.
