Description generale des costes de l'Amerique, : havres, isles, caps, golfes, bancs, ecueils, basses, profondeurs, vents & courans d'eau. Des peuples qui les habitent, du temperamment de l'air, de la qualité des terres & du commerce. Utiles à tous navigateurs, hydrographes & geographes, le tout recueilly des autheurs les plus modernes, & des memoires des pilotes, françois, espagnols & portugais.
A 1677 French pilot's guide printed in Rouen by Bonaventure le Brun, compiled from the accounts of French, Spanish and Portuguese pilots to describe American coasts, harbours, currents and peoples for navigators, hydrographers and geographers. The three pictures are small typographic ornaments: a dense bouquet of stylised flowers and leaves, a scrolled foliate border with a central blossom, and a heraldic shield with a chevron, crest and ribbon scroll, which a designer could reuse as tailpieces, frames or emblem motifs.
