Les Oeuvres de Jacques et Paul Contant pere et fils maistres apoticaires de la ville de Poictiers. Divisées en cinq traictez. 1. Les Commentaires sur Dioscoride. 2. Le Second Eden. 3. Exagoge mirabilium naturae è Gazophylacio. 4. Synopsis plantarum cum ethymologiis. 5. Le Jardin & Cabinet poëtique. Avec les figures des plantes en taille douce.
A 1628 French collection of pharmacy and botany works by the Poitiers apothecaries Jacques and Paul Contant, father and son, printed at Poitiers by Julian Thoreau and the widow of Antoine Mesnier for medical and pharmaceutical readers. The pictures are small woodcut ornaments showing a central frontal female bust flanked by two serpent-headed birds or dragons, with foliage and tassels below, repeated across variants that differ only slightly in detail and could suit a designer seeking symmetrical emblematic borders.
