Traité des feux artificiels pour la guerre et pour la recreation : auec plusieurs belles obseruations, abregez de geometrie, fortifications, horloges solairs, & exemples d'arithmetique
A 1640 French treatise on military and recreational fireworks by Francis Malthus, published in Paris by Cardin Besongne, also covering geometry, fortification, sundials and arithmetic for a general readership. Its pictures are decorative woodcut initial letters with dense foliate scrollwork, figures and grotesque faces framing large capitals, offering a designer historical border and initial-letter models for printed pages.
