America: Darinnen warhafftig erzehlet wirdt, wie die Spanier die Goldreiche Landschafften deß Peruanischen Königreichs eyngenommen ...
A 1597 German folio edition of Girolamo Benzoni's account of Spanish conquest in the Americas, edited and engraved by Theodor de Bry for a European readership. Its copperplate-style woodcut scenes show Spanish conquistadors among Indigenous peoples, with dense German text blocks beneath each plate; a designer might take its dramatic crowd compositions, dense hatching, and architectural framing as models for historical narrative layouts.
