Les eaux chaudes de la ville d'Aix, de leur vertu, à quelles maladies elles sont utiles ; & de la façon de s'en servir...
A French medical treatise by J. S. Pitton, printed at Aix by Charles David in 1678, written to explain the healing uses of the hot springs of Aix and how patients should take the waters. The pictures are small black-and-white woodcut ornaments such as a grotesque female head with foliage, a heraldic shield with a tower between lions, a fleur-de-lis with acanthus scrolls, and a flower vase, which suggest compact emblem-like devices a designer could adapt for vintage crests, borders, or headpieces.
