L'examen des esprits pour les sciences où se monstrent les différences d'Esprits...augmenté de la derniere impression d'Espagne
A seventeenth-century French edition of Juan Huarte's treatise on the differences of human minds and their suitability for the sciences, printed in Paris in 1645 by Jean Le Bouc for scholars and medical readers. The pictures are a printed headpiece of a flowering foliage initial S and a round library stamp of the Paris medical faculty with a bearded profile bust of Hippocrates, the stamp being a later addition rather than part of the book's own decoration; a designer might take the botanical initial's dense, curling leaf forms as a model.
