Raisonnements sur la nature des esprits qui servent aux sentiments
A seventeenth-century French treatise on the nature of the spirits that serve the senses, written by Hippolyte Jules Pilet de La Mesnardière and printed in Paris in 1638 by Jean Camusat for a learned medical readership. Its pictures are small printed ornaments: two symmetrical black scrollwork cartouches, a decorated initial C with a foliage-filled vase, and a title page set in roman type with a stamped portrait roundel, offering a designer dense arabesque and historic letterform references.
