Histoire du gouvernement de Venise

Amelot de La Houssaie, Abraham-Nicolas, sieur, 1634-1706, Adams, John, 1735-1826, former owner. MB (BRL), John Adams Library (Boston Public Library) MB (BRL) · 1676 · A Paris : Chez Frederic Leonard, Imprimeur ordinaire du Roy, & du Clergé de France. · 33 pictures

Histoire du gouvernement de Venise is a 1676 French political history of Venice by Abraham-Nicolas Amelot de La Houssaie, printed in Paris by Frederic Leonard for a readership of royal and clerical officials. Its pictures are small square decorative initial letters, each a capital L framed in a different ornamental border of interlace, diamonds and dotted rules, which a designer could draw on for border and initial-cap patterns.

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