Warhafftig Historia vnnd Beschreibung einer Landtschafft der wilden, nacketen, grimmigen Menschfresser Leuthen, in der Newen Welt America gelegen, vor vnd nach Christi Geburt im Land zu Hessen vnbekant, biss auff dise ij. nechst vergangene Jar, da sie Hans Staden von Homberg auss Hessen durch seine eygne Erfarung erkant, vnd jetzund durch den Truck an Tag gibt. : mit einer Vorrede D. Joh. Dryandri ... : Inhalt des Büchlins volget nach den Vorreden
This is Hans Staden's 1557 account of his captivity among the Tupinamba people of Brazil, printed in Frankfurt am Main by Weygandt Han for a German readership. The woodcuts show ships, boats, and armed men on shore, with a few scenes of captives and a walled town, all rendered in dense, angular black line. A designer could take from them the compact vocabulary of early printed narrative: crowded hull outlines, rigging drawn as tangled hatching, and figures packed tightly into small rectangular frames.
