Introduction a la langue des Galibis, sauuages de la terre ferme de l'Amerique Meridionale.
A 1655 Paris grammar of the Galibi language of the Carib peoples of South America, written by the Jesuit missionary Pierre Pelleprat and printed by Sebastien and Gabriel Cramoisy for readers of French. The pictures are small woodcut printer's ornaments: a framed strapwork cartouche with a dragon-like creature above a village, a horizontal band of scrolling foliage around a central panel, a flower-filled urn, and a historiated initial I showing figures in a landscape. A designer could draw on their dense, hand-cut line work, tight border framing, and the mix of foliate scrolls with narrative vignettes.
