Histoire des plus illustres et scavans hommes de leurs siecles : tant de l'Europe que de l'Asie, Afrique & Amerique : avec leurs portraits en tailles-douces, tirez sur les veritables originaux
A 1670 Paris biography collection by André Thevet, issued by publisher François Mauger, gathering portraits and lives of illustrious scholars from Europe, Asia, Africa and America for a learned readership. The pictures are repeated triangular arrangements of small black ornamental fleuron or scroll units, stacked in tapering rows like a printer's type ornament, suggesting a modular pattern block a designer could adapt for borders or repeats.
