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Les trois mondes.

La Popelinière, Lancelot-Voisin, sieur de, 1541-1608 · 1582 · A Paris : a L'Oliuier de Pierre L'Huillier, ruë S. Iaques · 4 pictures

Les trois mondes is a geographical treatise by Lancelot-Voisin, sieur de La Popelinière, printed in Paris in 1582 by Olivier de Pierre L'Huillier for readers interested in New World discoveries. Its pictures are a decorative woodcut initial R, a historiated initial L with figures and foliage, a repeating scrolled border strip, and a bookplate of John Carter Brown with a heraldic shield, useful to a designer for Renaissance ornament, letterforms and interlaced scrollwork.

Discoveries in geography

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