Discours d'Ambroise Paré, conseiller premier chirurgien du roy, à scavoir , de la mumie, des venins, de la licorne et de la peste. Avec une table des plus notables matieres contenues esdits Discours
A 1582 Paris printing by the royal surgeon Ambroise Paré, issued by Gabriel Buon for a learned medical readership, with discourses on mummies, poisons, the unicorn and plague. The pages show dense black-letter French text in a roman face, opening with large decorative initial capitals built from interlaced foliage, scrollwork and grotesque ornament, with the library's oval stamp on one page.








