Libro primo de la conquista del Peru & prouincia del Cuzco de le Indie Occidentali
A 1535 Venetian printing of Francisco de Xerez's account of the Spanish conquest of Peru, issued by the printer Stefano da Sabio for an Italian readership interested in the New World. The pictures are small woodcut printer's devices and initials: a roundel bearing the printer's name under a crown, a walled castle-like heraldic shield, a plain cross shield with a helmet, and an ornate interlace initial M. Their dense black-and-white line work and interlaced knotwork offer a designer models for compact emblems, monograms, and heraldic badges.
