Memoires geographiques de tous les pays du monde; : avec plusieurs observations historiques.
Memoires geographiques is a 1674 French geography book by Pierre Duval (1619-1682), printed at Lyon by Jean Certes for general readers. Its pictures are horizontal printers' ornament bands of black woodcut scrollwork framing grotesque masks, winged figures and birds, useful to a designer seeking decorative border or frieze motifs.










