Commissions du roy et de monseigneur l'admiral, au sieur de Monts, pour l'habitation és terres de Lacadie Canada, & autres endroits en la Nouuelle France. Ensemble les defenses premieres & secondes à tous autres, de trafiquer auec les sauuages desdites terres. Auec la verification en la cour de Parlement à Paris
A 1605 Paris printed royal commission issued under Henry IV by the French sovereign, granting Pierre du Gua, sieur de Monts, rights to settle Acadia and trade with Indigenous peoples in New France, in legal French. Its pages carry large woodcut initial letters, mostly H and one C, built from interlaced foliage, scrolls and a grotesque face, which a designer could borrow for decorative capitals and historical borders.
