Indiae Orientalis pars VI. Veram et historicam descriptionem auriferi regni Guineae, ad Africam pertinentis, quod alias littus de Mina vocant, : continens, qua situs loci, ratio vrbium & domorum, portus item & flumina varia, cum variis incolarum superstitionibus, educatione, forma, commerciis, linguis & moribus, succincta breuitate explicantur & percensentur.
Pieter de Marees's 1604 Frankfurt account of the Gold Coast, printed by Wolfgang Richter for the de Bry brothers as part six of their Indies collection, describes the region's towns, rivers, peoples and trade for a European readership. The pictures are small woodcut and engraved decorations: a heraldic cartouche with a crowned crest and sundials, a large initial letter with Latin text, and a triangular ornamental headpiece with scrolls and a face, useful to a designer for border, initial and heraldic devices.
