A sommary description, manifesting that greater profits are to bee done in the hott then in the could parts off the coast off America: : and how much the public good is concerned therein referring to the annexed advertissement, for men inclined to plantations
A 1660 promotional pamphlet printed in Rotterdam for Sir Balthazar Gerbier, urging men inclined to plantations to invest in the hot parts of the American coast, chiefly Guyana. The first picture is a black-letter opening with a large decorated initial A and a dedicatory line addressed to the King's Sacred Majesty, while the second is a small woodcut of a squirrel perched among stylised tulips, leaves and a rosette, a useful reference for compact botanical ornament framing a text block.
