De la Nature, vertu et utilité des plantes, divisé en 5 livres... par Guy de la Brosse,...
A 1628 French botanical and medicinal treatise on plants in five books, written by physician Guy de la Brosse and printed in Paris by Rollin Baragnès for a learned medical readership. Its pictures are small printed decorative initials and a title page, showing a woodcut figure framed in leaves, an ornate scrolled letter with foliage, and a typeset title page with a bordered device; a designer might take the dense interlaced foliage and framed capital letters as models for vignettes and ornamental initials.
