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Petit traicte et familier de la peste : contenant la description, les symptomes, & effects d'icelle, auec la methode, & remedes y requis, tant preseruatifs que curatifs

Canadelle, Moyse, 16th-17th cent · 1615 · A Geneve : Par Estienne Gamonet · 20 pictures

A 1615 plague treatise in French by Moyse Canadelle, printed in Geneva by Estienne Gamonet, describing plague symptoms, effects, and preventive and curative remedies for physicians and general readers. Its pictures are decorative woodcut initial letters, the large capitals L, F, C and a partial letter, built from interlaced scrollwork, spirals, and hatched shading that a designer could adapt for monograms or drop caps.

Plague

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