Primo volume, & quarta editione delle navigationi et viaggi
This is a 1588 Venetian edition of Giovanni Battista Ramusio's collection of voyages and travels, printed by the Giunti press in Venice for a learned readership interested in exploration. Its pictures are small woodcuts: two ornamental fleur-de-lis cartouches with the initials L and A flanked by putti and foliage, a botanical study of a maize cob in its husk, and a simple engraved landscape strip with a scale bar, which suggest decorative frames, botanical plates and terrain cartography for designers.
