Preservatifs et remedes contre la peste, ou le capucin charitable, enseignant la methode pour remedier aux grandes miseres que la peste a coutume de causer parmy les peuples...
A plague treatise in French printed in Paris in 1668 by Maurice de Tolon, offering remedies and precautions against plague for ordinary people. The pictures are small letterpress woodcut ornaments: a framed initial A wreathed in leaves, a flower basket, a grotesque face flanked by plumes, and a chapter list set in mixed roman and italic type, useful for decorative borders, initials and historic type layout.
