L'art de connoistre les hommes. Partie troisième, qui contient la deffense de l'extension et des parties libres de l'âme
A 1666 Paris treatise by Marin Cureau de la Chambre, published by Claude Barbin, on physiognomy and the nature of the soul, written for a learned readership of the French classical age. The pictures are small printed ornaments: a bearded profile medallion in an oval seal, a woodcut historiated initial I with figures, and a dense fruit-and-foliage cluster in woodcut, all set against letterpress type that a designer could borrow for period decoration.
