Copie de la requeste presentee au roy d'Espagne par le capitaine Pierre Ferdinand de Quir, sur la descouuerte de la cinquiesme partie du monde, appellee la Terre Australle, incogneuë, & des grandes richesses & fertilité d'icelle
A 1617 Paris printed petition by Pedro Fernandes de Queirós, a Portuguese navigator in Spanish service, addressed to the King of Spain to promote a voyage of discovery to the southern continent called Terra Australis, held today at the John Carter Brown Library. The single picture is a small printer's device of a crowned griffin-like bird above a banner reading GAUDEO, engraved in sober black line on cream paper, suggesting a compact emblem for a heraldic label, seal, or bookplate.
