Stephani Roderici Castrensis,... Tractatus de complexu morborum, studio et diligentia Valerii Nervii,...
A 1624 Latin medical treatise on complex diseases by Esteban Rodrigo de Castro, printed in Florence by Zanobi Pignoni and edited by Valerio Nerli for a learned readership of physicians and scholars. Its pictures are a title page with a centred heading and a Paris medical faculty stamp, a decorated initial L, a dense italic text block, and a woodcut historiated initial N showing a standing figure, offering designers examples of seventeenth-century letterpress hierarchy and ornamental capitals.



