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Die reyse va[n] Lissebone om te vare[n]na obs[em?] eyela[n]dt Naguarir in groot Indien gheleghen voor bi Callicuten en[n] Gutschi[n] dair dye stapel is vander specerie[n] daer ons wonderlijcke di[n]ge[n] wed[er?]uarem zy[n]. en[n] dair wijveel ghesie[n] hebbe[n], als hier nd ghescreue[n] staet

Springer, Balthasar, Vespucci, Amerigo, 1451-1512 · 1508 · Gheprent Thantwerpen..: By my Jan van Doesborch. · 5 pictures

A 1508 Dutch-language travel account printed in Antwerp by Jan van Doesborch, recounting a voyage from Lisbon to the East Indies and Calicut, attributed to Balthasar Springer and Amerigo Vespucci, and aimed at a general readership of merchants and armchair travellers. Its woodcuts label groups of people by region, such as In Allago and In Arabia, showing figures in simple outline with dress and body types meant to differentiate them. A designer might take from them the crude, bold linework of early printed woodcuts and the compact, boxed-picture layout framed by a caption banner.

Almeida, Francisco de, approximately 1450-1510 · Imprint 1508

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