Das VII. Theil Americae. : Warhafftige vnnd liebliche Beschreibung etlicher fürnemmen Indianischen Landschafften vnd Insulen, die vormals in keiner Chronicken gedacht vnd erstlich in der Schiffart
This is a 1599 German-language account of South American travels, compiled from the narrative of Ulrich Schmidel and published in Frankfurt by Theodor de Bry's workshop for a Europe-wide readership of merchants and armchair travellers. The four pictures shown are not illustrations but text pages in German blackletter, with large decorated initial letters (historiated capitals) opening each chapter, and a designer could take from them the dense woodcut-style ornamental initials and the heavy, tightly set letterpress texture.
