America: being the latest, and most accurate description of the Nevv VVorld; : containing the original of the inhabitants, and the remarkable voyages thither. The conquest of the vast empires of Mexico and Peru, and other large provinces and territories, with the several European plantations in those parts. Also their cities, fortresses, towns, temples, mountains, and rivers. Their habits, customs, manners, and religions. Their plants, beasts, birds, and serpents. With an appendix, containing, besides several other considerable additions, a brief survey of what hath been discover'd of the unknown South-Land and the Arctick region.
Montanus's 1671 London account of the New World, printed by the author and illustrated with engravings of coastal settlements, shipping and colonial conflict in the Americas, drawn for an English readership. The pictures are dense, detailed copperplate engravings with strong tonal shading, showing landscapes, crowded battle scenes, and ships under sail that a designer could use for historical texture, maritime borders, or hatched illustration references.
