Du chocolate. Discours curieux, divisé en quatre parties...trad. d'espagnol en françois sur l'impression faite à Madrid l'an 1631...
A 1643 French translation from Spanish of Antonio Colmenero de Ledesma's curious discourse on chocolate, printed in Paris by Sebastien Cramoisy and dedicated to the Cardinal of Lyon, grand almoner of France. The pictures are small black-and-white letterpress pieces: a medallion of a pelican feeding its young within a bordered oval, a historiated initial with a standing figure among foliage, and a dedication page heading with a stamped medical-faculty seal. A designer might take from them the compact, ornamented typography of seventeenth-century Parisian title pages and the framed emblem style.
