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La geomance dv Seigneur Christofe de Cattan, gentilhomme Geneuoys. Liure non moins plaisant & recreatif. Auec la roüe de Pythagoras

Cattan, Christoforo, Du Préau, Gabriel, 1511-1588 · 1558 · Paris, G. Gilles · 98 pictures

A 1558 French book on geomancy, the divination art, by Christoforo Cattan of Geneva, printed in Paris by G. Gilles and issued for readers interested in occult learning and recreation. The pictures are four near-identical decorative woodcut initial letter L's, each a tall letter framed by a grotesque figure on the left and dense scrolling acanthus foliage, offering a designer a model for ornamental capitals and renaissance leaf borders.

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