La description geographique des provinces & villes plus fameuses de l'Indie Orientale, ...
This is a 1556 Paris printing of Marco Polo's geographical description of the provinces and cities of the East Indies, issued by the bookseller Iehan Longis for French readers. The four pictures are decorated woodcut initials, historiated and foliate letters with vine scrolls, flowers and a face, which a designer could borrow for ornamental capitals, monograms or border-led page openings.
