Le traité des curiositez extraordinaires des plus admirables effets de la nature
A 1676 French treatise on natural curiosities and remarkable effects of nature, written by the apothecary Nicolas Lémery and published in Paris by the bookseller Louis Vendôme for a general readership interested in medicine, household economy and cookery. The pictures are a stamped oval library seal reading Bibliot Impérial du Pantheon, repeated twice, and a decorated initial N with a small grotesque figure and flowing italic type, offering a designer ornate baroque border motifs and a compact seal emblem with an eagle and crown.
