Americae pars sexta, siue, Historiæ ab Hieronymo Bezono Mediolanese scriptæ, sectio tertia : res nõ minus nobiles & admiratione plenas continens, quàm præcedentes duæ : in hac enim reperies, qua ratione Hispani opuletissimas illas Peruäni regni prouincias occuparint, capto Rege Atabaliba : deide orta inter ipsos Hispanos in eo regno ciuilia bella : additus est breuis de fortunatis insulis cõmentariolus in duo capita distinctus : item additiones ad singula capita historiam illustrantes : accesit Perväni regni chorographica tabula ... : omnia elegantibus figuris in æs incisis expressa ;
A 1596 Latin account of Spanish conquest in Peru and the Americas by Girolamo Benzoni, issued in Frankfurt by Theodor de Bry for a learned European readership. The pictures here are historiated initial letters: a large decorative capital E, E, B and H, each framed with scrolling foliage, strapwork and small figures, cut in woodblock style and useful to a designer for ornamental lettering and border work.
