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Le voyage de Messire François Drake chevalier, aux Indes Occidentales l'an MDLXXXV. : auquel les villes de S. Iago, S. Domingo, S. Augustino & Cartagene ont esté prises .

Bigges, Walter, -1586 · 1588 · A Leyde, : chez Fr. de Raphelengien · 3 pictures

A French-language account of Francis Drake's 1585 expedition to the West Indies, written by Walter Bigges and printed at Leiden in 1588 by Raphelengien for a readership following the voyage. The three pictures are a painted-style heraldic shield with a peacock crest and motto ribbon, a coat of arms with an acanthus-scroll cartouche and the motto Gaudeo, and a woodcut of a sailing ship with furled sails. A designer could draw on the heraldic cartouches and the crisp shipboard line work for historical borders and emblem-style marks.

Drake, Francis, approximately 1540-1596

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