Poème philosophic de la vérité de la phisique mineralle...
A French philosophical poem on mineral physics, written by de Nuisement and published in Paris in 1620 by Jeremie Perier and Abdias Buisard for readers of medical literature. The single picture is a small woodcut ornament: a central face flanked by two fan-like plumes, scrolled volutes and hanging tassels, with the cut-and-dotted strokes of a printer's headpiece rather than a narrative scene. A designer might take from it a symmetrical, emblematic device suited to frontispieces, dividers or heraldic-style borders.
