Les sept livres d'Aphorismes du grand Hippocrate en latin et en françois : enrichis de tres-beaux et tres-doctes discours en forme de paraphrases, et d'explications tres-judicieuses prises des anciens & nouveaux autheurs ...
A 1645 Paris edition of Hippocrates' Aphorisms in Latin and French, with commentary by Michel Le Long and Guillaume Plancy, aimed at physicians and medical students. The four pictures are small woodcut initial letters, each an L framed by stylised leafy foliage in dark ink on cream paper, offering a designer ready-made decorative capitals for period-style borders.
