Americae pars VIII. : Continens primo, Descriptionem trium itinerum nobilissimi et fortissimi equitis Francisci Draken, qui circumnauigato vniuerso terrarum orbe, postea copiis nauticis, ad expugnandum ciuitatem Panamam, in Indiam nauigauit. Secundo, iter nobilissimi equitis Thomae Candisch, qui duorum ferè annorum spacio, 13000. Anglicana miliaria in mari confecit, vbi describuntur quoque omnia quae in hoc itinere ipsi acciderunt & visa sunt. Tertio, duo itinera, nobilissimi & fortissimi equitis Gualtheri Ralech quibus describitur auriferum & potentissimum regnum Guiana, ad septentrionem fluminis Orenoque, alias Oregliana dicti, situm cum metropoli eius Manoa & Macuieguarai, aliisque finitimis regionibus & fluuis, mercibus item praestantissimis & mercatura, quae in regno hoc exercetur, cuius luculenta tabula geographica in fronte operis occurrit.
This is a 1625 Latin-language volume printed by Erasmus Kempfer in Frankfurt, issued by the de Bry publishing firm and compiled for European readers interested in voyages to the Americas. The pictures are black-and-white copperplate engravings with dense hatching, showing naval fleets, ships at anchor, and encounters on shorelines, with Latin text printed in columns beneath each plate; a designer could take from them the crowded line work and dramatic contrast of early engraved narrative scenes.
