Recueil de divers voyages faits en Afrique et en l'Amerique, qui n'on t point esté encore publiez; : contenant l'origine, les moeurs, les coûtumes & le commerce des habitans de ces deux parties du monde. : Avec des traitez curieux touchant la Haute Ethyopie, le débordement du Nil, la mer Rouge, & le Prete-Jean. : Le tout enrichi de figures, & de cartes geographiques, qui servent à l'intelligence des choses contenuës en ce volume
This is a 1674 French travel anthology printed in Paris by Louis Billaine, gathering unpublished accounts of voyages in Africa and the Americas, with its engraved plates and maps intended for readers of travel and geography. The pictures show a carved strapwork frieze with a central face, a woodcut arrangement of fruit, grapes and foliage, and a plate of African objects such as a woven shield, a thatched cone-shaped roof, a palm and a tall paddle-like object, drawn in clean hatched line that a designer could borrow for ornament or ethnographic detail.
