Traicte du feu et du sel; excellent et rare opuscule ..
A 1642 Rouen printing by Blaise de Vigenère, a treatise on fire and salt issued for a learned readership, held in the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library. The pictures are small woodcut historiated initials and ornaments, one of them a Latin-inscribed oval engraving of a boy holding a bird over a hillside, showing how decorative letters and cartouches can frame a page.




