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Les causes de la veille et du sommeil, des songes & de la vie & de la mort

Dupleix, Scipion, 1569-1661 · 1631 · A Rouen : Chez David du Petit Val, Imprimeur ordinaire du Roy, deuant la grand'porte du Palais · 10 pictures

A 1631 French treatise on sleep, dreams, life and death, printed in Rouen by David du Petit Val, printer to the king, for a learned readership. Its pictures are printer's ornaments: black strapwork bands of repeating scrollwork and leaf motifs, plus a large decorated initial T with curling acanthus-like foliage, suggesting border, headpiece and initial designs for period-style layouts.

Sleep · Dreams · Death

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