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De Martini Forbisseri Angli navigatione in regiones occidentis et septentrionis narratio historica,

Settle, Dionyse, Freig, Johannes Thomas, 1543-1583, Pithou, Nicolas, 1524-1598 · 1580 · Noribergae [Nuremberg]. : Imprimebatur, in officina Catharinae Gerlachin, & haeredum Iohannis Montani. · 4 pictures

This 1580 Latin account of Martin Frobisher's voyages to the western and northern regions was printed in Nuremberg by the heirs of Johannes Montanus and Catharina Gerlach, for a learned readership interested in English exploration. Its pictures are small woodcut ornaments and scenes: a cornucopia-and-cherub headpiece, a putto frieze, a boat scene with Inuit figures paddling kayaks, and a heraldic griffin above a banner reading GAUDEO. A designer might borrow the dense, decorative woodcut borders and the early cartographic-era figure drawing.

Frobisher, Martin, Sir, approximately 1535-1594 · Imprint 1580

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