Traité de la culture du nopal, et de l'éducation de la cochenille dans les colonies françaises de l'Amérique; précédé d'un Voyage a Guaxaca,
A 1787 French treatise by Nicolas Joseph Thiéry de Menonville on cultivating the nopal cactus and raising cochineal insects in the French American colonies, printed at Cap-Français with Paris and Bordeaux booksellers, and prefaced by a voyage to Oaxaca. The single picture is a bookplate on a marbled board showing a heraldic shield with crest and supporters above the name John Carter Brown, so it is a mark of ownership rather than an illustration of the text; a designer might take its engraved crest and scroll framing for ex-libris style or for marbled paper backgrounds.
