Amsterdams dam-praetje, : van wat outs en wat nieuws en wat vreemts
A 1649 Dutch pamphlet printed in Amsterdam by a bookseller on the Kalver-Dijck, collecting news and curiosities about the Dutch West India Company, Brazil and Portugal, aimed at a general reading public. Its two pictures are the same small woodcut headpiece: a symmetrical ornament of scrolling acanthus leaves, a central figure of a crouching animal or creature, and a lower bulbous leaf cluster printed in dense black lines on yellowed paper, offering a model for symmetrical headers and vintage ornamental borders.
