Le guide des chirurgiens, fait en latin & redigé en trois livres ...translaté en latin par Germain Courtin...
A French surgical manual by Estienne Gourmelen, published in Paris in 1619 by Olivier de Varennes for surgeons and medical readers, and translated into Latin by Germain Courtin. The two pictures are small typographic ornaments: a symmetrical woodcut headpiece with a winged face flanked by foliage and scrolls, and a historiated initial letter L with a figure and leafy border beside the opening text. A designer could draw on their compact, symmetrical woodcut vocabulary for borders, dropcaps and heraldic-style frames.
