La conference et entrevue d'Hippocrate et de Democrite. Tirée du grec et commentee par Marcellin Bompart
A 1632 French medical-literary dialogue by Marcellin Bompart, printed in Paris by the widow of Philippe Gaultier, staging a conversation between Hippocrates and Democritus translated from Greek. The frontispiece shows a heraldic shield with a chevron of white bands framed by crown, swords, cannons, and foliage, while the text page is dense seventeenth-century French roman type with a marginal rule and handwritten-looking underlining. A designer might take the ornate armorial cartouche as a model for emblem-style symbolism and the close-set black type block as a study in early modern page density.
