Les antiquitez et recherches des villes, chasteaux, et places plus remarquables de France : selon l'ordre & ressort des Parlement : oeuvre enrichy des fondations, situations & singularitez des villes, places, & autres choses notables, concernant les parlemens, iurisdictionns, eglises & police de ce royaume
A 1668 Paris edition by André Du Chesne (1584-1640) and François Du Chesne (1616-1693), published by Michel Bobin and Nicolas Le Gras, cataloguing the cities, castles and notable places of France by parlement jurisdiction for a French readership. The four pictures are historiated and foliated woodcut initials, two letter L's framed by leafy vine and foliage and one ornate C with scrolling acanthus and a small flower, useful for designers seeking decorative capital letters with dense botanical borders.
