Aggiunta alla quarta parte dell'Indie del sig. Giovanni Botero Benese : di mostri, & usanze di quelle parti, e di quei re con le sue figure al naturale
A 1623 Venetian appendix to Giovanni Botero's account of the Indies, published by Alessandro de' Vecchi and printed in Italian for travel and natural-history readers, with woodcut plates after Hans Burgkmair showing monstrous and exotic peoples. The pictures are simple black-and-white woodcuts of full-length figures set on a bare ground with small tufts of grass and shrubs, with cramped text blocks printed behind them. A designer could draw on their bold hatched linework, stiff frontal poses and the mix of human and monstrous bodies for illustrative or period-styled work.
