Description geographique et historique des costes de l'Amerique Septentrionale. : Avec l'histoire naturelle du païs.
A 1672 Paris printing by Nicolas Denys, a French colonial account of the North American coasts and their natural history, aimed at readers in France. The four pictures are small printed ornaments: scrolled foliage, a cherub with garlands, and a floral lozenge, all cut in a heavy black woodblock style on the page. A designer might take the dense interlaced scrollwork and symmetrical cartouche layouts as models for borders, frames, or headpieces.
