De wonderlijcke ende warachtighe historie vant coninckrijck van Peru, : geleghen in Indien, inde welcke verhaelt wordt de gheleghentheydt, costuymen, manieren van leuen, oueruloedicheyt des goudts eñ siluers, ende voort alle de sonderlingste dinghen vanden seluen lande, insghelijckx vanden steden, plaetsen, ende inwoonders desselfs conincrijckx, daer beneuen hoet gheuonden ende eerst by de Keyserlijcke Maiest. hoochloflijcker memorien gheconquesteert ende vercreghen is, met alle de oorlogen eñ strijden die ghebeurt zijn, soo teghens d'Indianen als oock onder den Spaengaerts om tgouuernement deen teghens den anderen. Verciert met veel schoone figuren
A 1563 Dutch-language history of the Spanish conquest of Peru by Agustín de Zárate, printed in Antwerp by Willem Silvius for a Flemish readership, with the conquest narrated through woodcut scenes. The pictures show mounted Spanish riders and armoured men in dense crowds of pikes and tents, plus a fortified walled town and a scene of prisoners before a seated ruler. A designer might take from them the crowded, hatched woodcut line work of sixteenth-century battle reportage, with framed scenes separated by ornamental borders.
