Americae pars qvarta, siue, Insignis & admiranda historia de reperta primùm Occidentali India à Christophoro Columbo anno M. CCCCXCII

Benzoni, Girolamo, b. 1519, Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598, Chauveton, Urbain, 16th cent · 1594 · Impressvm Francofvrti ad Moenum : Typis Ioannis Feyrabend, impensis Theodori de Bry · 80 pictures

A 1594 Latin edition of Girolamo Benzoni's account of the Spanish conquest of the Americas, with Chauveton's text, printed at Frankfurt by Feyrabend for Theodor de Bry and aimed at a learned European readership. The four pictures are woodcut historiated initials, each letter filled with small figures, foliage, and scrollwork in a sixteenth-century German style, useful to a designer seeking decorative capitals and border ornament.

Indians

Internet Archive · Getty Research Institute · Public Domain Mark 1.0 · More from this library