Clarissimo et excellentissimo viro, D.D. Joan. Bapt. Colbert, Marchioni de Seignelay, d'Alegre, Blainville, &c. Regi ab intimis consiliis, secretis, et mandatis, regiorum ordinum quaestori, Gratulatio de multiplici, ex quo ille rem maritimam administrat, reportata in utroque mari victoria, à classibus Ludovici Magni. : Ex occasione captae nuper in America Insulae Tabacci, a comite d'Estrées
A Latin congratulatory poem printed at Lyon in 1678 by Gaspar-Joseph Charonier for Jean-Baptiste Colbert, marquis de Seignelay, celebrating a French naval victory won under the comte d'Estrées at Tobago. The pictures are small woodcut and engraved ornaments: a large decorated initial V with a grotesque mask, a foliate frieze with monsters and a mask, a fruit-and-flower urn, and a heraldic coat of arms with a motto banner, offering designers period decorative vocabulary for headpieces, borders and armorial devices.
