America, oder wie mans zu teutsch nennet die Neuwe Welt, oder West Jndia.
This is a 1605 German translation of José de Acosta's natural and moral history of the Indies, printed at Ursel by Cornelius Sutorius and held by the John Carter Brown Library. The pages are dense blackletter text set in a single column, with a printer's emblem of a seated figure in a roundel, a red manuscript ownership signature, and a black scrolled ornament at the head of a section. A designer might take the decorative ornament and the emblem's ring-and-scroll framing as models for rules, initials, and printer's marks.
