America: Warhafftige vnnd liebliche Beschreibung etlicher fürnemmen Jndianischen Landschafften vnd Jnsulen, die vormals in keiner Chronicken gedacht ...
This is a 1597 German illustrated account of expeditions in South America, compiled and published by Theodor de Bry from the travels of Ulrich Schmidel, intended for a German-reading audience of merchants and armchair readers. The pictures are black-and-white woodcut and engraved frontispieces, decorative initials, and ship and shore scenes, with dense blackletter text; a designer might draw on their ornate title architecture and strong ship-and-coast compositions.
