Discours de la verité : des causes et effects, des divers cours, mouuements, flux, reflux, & faleure de la mer oceane, Mer Mediterranee & autres mers de la terre.
A 1600 Paris treatise by Claude Duret on the causes of ocean tides, currents and the flow of the sea, printed by Jacques Rezé for a French readership of scholars and navigators. Its pictures are decorative woodcut initials and a head-and-scroll headpiece, with leafy acanthus scrollwork, interlace and a central mask that a designer could adapt for historical borders, drop caps or ornamental letterforms.
