America : being the latest, and most accurate description of the New World : containing the original of the inhabitants, and the remarkable voyages thither : the conquest of the vast empires of Mexico and Peru, and other large provinces and territories, with the several European plantations in those parts : also their cities, fortresses, towns, temples, mountains, and rivers : their habits, customs, manners, and religions : their plants, beasts, birds, and serpents : with an appendix containing, besides several other considerable additions, a brief survey of what hath been discover'd of the unknown south-land and the Arctick region
John Ogilby's 1671 London folio America, compiled from Arnoldus Montanus and printed by the author, is an early English description of the New World aimed at readers of travel and colonial history. Its engravings are black-and-white copperplate scenes of a hammock with a tropical household and a distant colonial town beside a river with palms, offering a designer period detail for maps, trade scenes and seventeenth-century exotic motifs.
