Histoire des embellissemens, avec la methode pour guerir les maladies du cuir
A French treatise on cosmetics and treating skin ailments, written by Lazare Pena and printed in Paris by Jean Berjon in 1616 for a medical readership. The woodcut shows a nude female figure standing on a sphere, holding a sun-face disc and an hourglass, a stamped Paris medical faculty seal and handwritten annotations in the margin; a designer could draw on its allegorical emblem style, with its cartouche framing and stiff, symmetrical posture.
