Description de la Louisiane, : nouvellement decouverte au sud' oüest de la Nouvelle France, par ordre du roy. Avec la carte du pays: Les moeurs & la maniere de vivre des sauvages.
Louis Hennepin's 1683 Paris account of Louisiana, printed for the French crown, describing the lands south-west of New France and the customs of its native peoples. The pictures are a pair of near-identical woodcut putti beside a column with a mirror, a 17th-century map of North America's Gulf coast with a decorative cartouche, and a heraldic coat of arms with a winged helmet and a Latin motto. A designer could draw on the crisp woodcut line work, the ornamented map cartouche, and the cherub figures.
