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America: Neuwe und gründtliche Historien von dem nidergängischen Indien, so von Christophoro Columbo im Jar 1492 erstlich erfunden [2]: Von der Spanier Wüten, beyd wider ihre Knechte die Nigriten, unnd auch die arme Indianer ...

Benzoni, Girolamo, Bry, Theodor de [Hrsg.] · 1595 · 49 pictures

A 1595 German edition of Girolamo Benzoni's account of the Spanish conquest of the Americas, edited and engraved by Theodor de Bry, held by Heidelberg University Library. The pages are dense woodcut-style engravings with German blackletter text beneath, showing Spanish soldiers attacking Indigenous people in forested landscapes, with battle scenes, ships, and fortified towns. A designer might draw on their crowded compositions, dramatic diagonal movement of crowds, and strong black-and-white contrast of line work.

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