Pars ... Indiae Orientalis: opus Belgica lingua primo editum: Veram Et Historicam Descriptionem Avriferi Regni Gvineae, Ad Africam Pertinentis ... continens ...
This is a 1604 Latin-language part of the de Bry family's India Orientalis series, published in Frankfurt by Johann Theodor and Johann Israel de Bry and translated by Billibaldus Strobaeus, for European readers interested in Africa and the Gold Coast. The pictures are numbered copperplate engravings, each with a Latin caption above and a dense block of text below, showing ceremonies, buildings, costumes and royal court scenes in West Africa. A designer could draw on their crisp hatched line, tidy captioned page layouts, and the detailed palm trees, cloth and crowds.
