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, dediée a Sa Majesté.
Description de la Louisiane is a 1684 French travel account by the missionary explorer Louis Hennepin, printed in Paris by Amable Auroy for presentation to the king and held by the John Carter Brown Library. Its pictures are small woodcut and engraved tailpieces and ornaments, showing putti with a column and lion, a scrolled monogram, and a coat of arms, useful to a designer for compact decorative vignettes and early modern heraldic motifs.
