La sphere françoise : c'est à dire le traité de géographie qui donne la connoisance et l'vsage du globe & de la carte, auecque les figures necessaires pour ce sujet.
A 1663 French geography treatise by Pierre Duval, geographer to the King, published in Paris for the author's own shop and for Nicolas Pepingué, explaining how to use globes and maps with supporting figures. Its pictures are small printed tables of numbers printed sideways, a bookseller's imprint page in roman and italic type, and a woodcut ornament of a central face flanked by foliage, useful to a designer for dense tabular layouts, classic type hierarchy, and symmetrical border motifs.
