Traite de l'esprit de l'homme et de ses fonctions
A seventeenth-century French treatise on the human mind and its faculties, written by Pierre Chanet and published in Paris by A. Courbe in 1649 for philosophical readers. The pictures are repeated woodcut-style printer's ornaments, a horizontal band of scrolling foliage, cartouches and grotesque figures around a central framed motif, offering a designer a symmetrical border model with classical strapwork and acanthus character.
