Le triomphe de Pradon sur les Satires du Sieur Dxxx
This is a 1686 French satirical pamphlet printed at The Hague, a polemic by Jacques Pradon and others against Nicolas Boileau's satires, held by the University of Toronto Fisher Library. The single picture is a small woodcut tailpiece or ornament of a ribbed armillary sphere on a pedestal, with a handwritten shelf number pencilled beneath it. A designer could take from it a compact, hand-cut emblem of astronomy and learning, with interlacing bands that suit monogram or bookplate-style marks.
