Traité de l'eau de vie ou anatomie théorique et pratique du vin
A 1646 French treatise on brandy and wine, written by Jean Brouaut and published in Paris by Jacques de Senlecque, aimed at a readership of physicians and the curious. Its pictures are small woodcut and engraved devices: a shield with alchemical symbols, a page of medallions with heraldic-looking emblems, and a figure-filled decorative initial, offering a designer ideas for period emblems, ornamental capitals and seventeenth-century label layouts.
