Discours et abrégé de la vertu et propriété des eauyx d'Encausse...
A French medical treatise on the virtues and properties of the mineral waters of Encausse, written by Pierre Gassen de Plantin and printed at Toulouse in 1611 by Hélie Mareschal for a readership of physicians and the curious. The pictures are small, sober and printed in black ink: an engraved medical faculty seal with a profile bust of a physician, and a bookplate with a crowned shield bearing stars, a chevron and a wheat sheaf, framed by scrolling acanthus ornament that a designer could borrow for heraldic or seal motifs.
