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Histoire naturelle de la fontaine qui brusle près de Grenoble, Tournon, G. Linocier, 1618

Tardin, Jean · 1618 · Tournon, G. Linocier · 4 pictures

A 1618 French natural-history treatise on the burning spring near Grenoble, printed at Tournon by G. Linocier and written by Jean Tardin for a learned readership, with a dedicatory epistle to a duke and marshal. Its pictures are letterpress pages: a roman title block, a historiated initial M, a chapter heading with italic numbered summaries, and a woodcut cornucopia-and-mask ornament, offering a designer period typography, decorative initials and fleuron ornament.

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