Trattato della natura de'cibi et del bere / del sig. Baldassare Pisanelli, medico Bolognese
A 1586 Italian treatise on the nature of foods and drink by Baldassare Pisanelli, a physician of Bologna, printed in Venice by Gio. Alberti for readers of diet and health. The four pictures are woodcut decorative initial letters, an capital I in strapwork and foliage, one with a small landscape and a figure, all in heavy black outlines on cream paper, useful to a designer seeking historic letterform ornament and border motifs.
