Nouvelles expériences sur la vipere, ou l'on verra une description exacte de toutes ses parties, la source de son venin, ses divers effets, & les remedes exquis que les artistes peuvent tirer cu corps de cet animal...
A 1672 French natural-history treatise on the viper by the pharmacist Moyse Charas, printed in Paris for the author and aimed at physicians and apothecaries. Its plates are crisp black-and-white engravings: large schematic diagrams of a coiled viper with dissected organs and fangs, alongside ornate woodcut initial letters with grotesque beasts and scrollwork that a designer could borrow for decorative capitals.
