Essay des merveilles de nature, et des plus nobles artifices,...huitiesme edition, revueue, corrigée, & augmentée par l'autheur
A 1631 French edition of a popular treatise on natural marvels and ingenious devices, published by Jean Osmont in Rouen for a general readership of curious lay readers. Its pictures are small woodcut and engraved ornaments: a framed cartouche with a scalloped inner panel, a solid triangle divided into smaller triangles, a decorated initial D with foliage and a grapevine, and a scrolled ornamental flourish, offering a designer examples of compact frames, geometric subdivision and historic decorative lettering.
