America pars vndecima: : seu Descriptio admirandi itineris a Guillielmo Schouten Hollando peracti: qua ratione in meridionali plaga freti Magellanici novum hactenuśque incognitum in mare Australe transitum patefecerit: quas item terras, insulas, gentes, reśque mirabiles in dicto Australi Oceano obvias habuerit.
This is a 1619 Latin account published at Oppenheim by the de Bry family, recording Willem Schouten's voyage round Cape Horn and the Australian Ocean for a learned European readership. The pictures are ornamental engraved headpieces and friezes of scrolling foliage, masks and grotesques, printed in black on cream paper, offering a designer dense Renaissance strapwork patterns to adapt for borders, panels and tattoo-like motifs.









