Description of New Netherland
Description of New Netherland is a 1671 Amsterdam travel account by Arnoldus Montanus, written for a Dutch readership about the colony later known as New York. Its engravings are rotated on the page and show a Dutch-style harbour town with ships, rigging and a banner reading Nova Amsterdam, plus a scene of a rider with a horse, palms and a strange bird in a tropical landscape, rendered in fine, dense etched lines a designer could borrow for period maps and vignettes.
