Les veritez anatomiques et chirurgicales des organes de la respiration...
A 1639 French anatomy and surgery treatise on the organs of respiration by Gabriel Bertrand, printed in Paris by Jean Jost for a learned medical readership writing in French. The pictures are letterpress pages showing ornate woodcut initial letters with foliage and a grotesque face, a dedicatory title page addressed to a duchess, and a printer's device, offering a designer historic models for decorative capitals and early modern typographic layout.
