De rebus, et insulis nouiter repertis a sereniss. Carolo imperatore, et variis earum gentium moribus
This is a 1524 Latin account of newly discovered lands and peoples under Emperor Charles, by Pietro Martire d'Anghiera, printed in Nuremberg by F. Peypus for a learned readership. The single picture is a marbled endpaper facing a printed armorial bookplate reading John Carter Brown, with a crest, shield and mantling. A designer could take the rich red and cream combed marbling pattern as a source of organic, flowing texture, while the heraldic plate offers a compact, symmetrical emblem layout.
