Les obseruations de plusieurs singularitez et choses memorables : trouuées en Grece, Asie, Judée, Egypte, Arabie ... en trois livres
Pierre Belon's 1554 travel and natural history account, printed in Paris by Benoît Prévost for Guillaume Cavellat, describes Greece, Asia, Judea, Egypt and Arabia for a learned French readership. The pictures are decorative woodcut initials, each a large letter wrapped in acanthus scrolls, leaves, fruit and grotesque figures, offering designers models for ornamental capitals and border framing.
