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The manners, lawes, and customes of all nations

Boemus, Joannes, approximately 1485-1535 · 1611 · At London : Printed by George Eld · 5 pictures

Boemus's The manners, lawes, and customes of all nations, printed in London by George Eld in 1611, is a folio-style geographical and ethnographic compendium of European and world peoples, aimed at an English readership. Its pictures are small woodcut historiated initials opening each country description, with decorative frames of animals, a crowned figure and foliage, giving a designer compact, heraldic-feeling ornament for capitals and borders.

Manners and customs · Geography

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