Traicté familier de l'exact préparation spagyrique des medicaments,...
A 1648 French medical treatise on spagyric (alchemical) preparation of remedies, written by Joseph Duchesne, sieur de la Violette, and printed in Lyon by H. de la Garde for physicians and apothecaries. The single picture is a small woodcut head-piece: a central face framed by symmetrical scrolls, leafy fronds, and tendrils, with a stiff, bold black-and-white line that a designer could borrow for ornamental borders or vintage emblem marks.
