Commentaire sur la carie, et corruption des os...
A 1656 French medical treatise on bone decay and corruption, written by Antoine Lambert and printed in Marseille by Claude Garcin for a readership of physicians and surgeons. Its woodcut ornaments include a basket of flowers, a symmetrical scrolled cartouche with foliage and tulip-like blossoms, and a large initial M wrapped in leaves, offering a designer seventeenth-century printer's ornament in a compact, reusable form.
