Iournal ou description du merveilleux voyage de Guilliaume Schouten, Hollandois natif de Hoorn, : fait es années 1615, 1616 & 1617. Comme (en circumnavigeant le globe terrestre) il a decouvert vers le zud du destroit de Magellan un nouveau passage, jusques à la grand mer de Zud. Ensemble, des avantures admirables qui luy sont advenues en descouvrant de plusieurs isles, & peuples estranges.
This is a 1618 French-language account of Willem Schouten's circumnavigation of the globe in 1615 to 1617, printed in Amsterdam by Guillaume Ianson for a readership interested in voyages and discovery. The pictures are black-and-white copperplate engravings of coastlines, ships, and island peoples, drawn with fine hatching and crisp outlines. A designer could take their dense linework, panoramic harbour views, and hand-tinted-looking detail as reference for antique maritime maps and travel prints.
