America: being the latest, and most accurate description of the Nevv VVorld; : 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.
Montanus's 1671 English America, printed in London by John Ogilby from Arnoldus Montanus's Dutch account, is a large descriptive compendium of the New World for English readers interested in voyages, colonies and native peoples. The four pictures include a coastal landscape with natives and a fleet, ships anchored off a town, a tethered herd of goats and cattle beside boats towed along shallows, and a map with a sea monster and fleet of canoes, all in hand-engraved line with light tint. A designer could draw on their dense cross-hatched engraving and the lively scale between ships, figures and coastline.
