Relation de ce qui s'est passé en la mission des peres de la Compagnie de Iesus, en la Nouuelle France, es annees 1653. & 1654. Enuoyée au r.p. Nicolas Royon, prouincial de la prouince de France.
A 1655 Paris imprint printed by Sébastien Cramoisy, a Jesuit mission report from New France by François Le Mercier, sent to the French Jesuit provincial and concerned with Indigenous peoples of North America. The pictures are small printer's ornaments: a woodcut frame of storks and foliage over the place name Paris, a grotesque-and-lyre headpiece, a flourished initial M, and a bookplate coat of arms with the motto Gaudeo. A designer might take the dense interlaced foliage, animal-filled borders and flourished capitals as models for period ornament.
