Regionum Indicarum per Hispanos olim devastatrum accuratissima descriptio, insertis figuris aencis ad vivum fabrefactis
This is a 1664 Latin edition printed in Heidelberg by Wilhelm Walter of Bartolomé de las Casas's account of Spanish colonial violence in the Indies, illustrated with copperplate engravings for a Protestant European readership. The plates show crowded scenes of soldiers attacking, killing and punishing native people in open landscapes and village settings, with dense hatched linework and crowded figure groupings that a designer could study for dramatic composition and tightly packed narrative action.
