Apparato all'historia di tutte le nationi. Et il modo di studiare la geografia.
A 1598 Venetian printed book by Antonio Possevino, a Jesuit scholar, offering an introduction to the histories of all nations and how to study geography, aimed at students and readers of history. Its pictures are decorative woodcut initials, each a large letter framed by foliage, scrollwork and small figures, which a designer could adapt for ornamental capitals and historical borders.













