Description d'Vkranie, qui sont plusieurs prouinces du royaume de Pologne. Contenuës depuis les confins de la Moscouie, iusques aux limites de la Transilvanie. : Ensemble leurs moeurs, fącons de viures, & de faire la guerre
A 1660 French description of Ukraine, then part of the Polish kingdom, written by the military engineer Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan and printed at Rouen by Jacques Cailloué, covering the land between Muscovy and Transylvania along with its customs and ways of making war. The pictures are plain black-line technical diagrams: a flat-bottomed boat with oars, a page of lettered machine drawings and a dome-shaped wicker frame, and a heraldic coat of arms with a banner reading Gaudeo on a yellow ground. A designer could draw on the sturdy engraved diagrams and the early modern heraldic cartouche for maps, schematics and crest-style marks.
