Extraict ou recueil des isles nouuelleme[n]t trouuees en la grand mer oceane ou temps du roy Despaigne Ferna[n]d & Elizabeth sa femme,

Anghiera, Pietro Martire d', 1457-1526 · 1532 · On les vend a Paris : rue Sainct Iehan de Beauuais, chez Simon de Colines au Soleil dor. : Imprime a Paris par Simon de Colines libraire iure de luniuersite de Paris · 4 pictures

A 1532 French printing by Simon de Colines in Paris, a compilation by Pietro Martire d'Anghiera on the islands newly found in the Ocean Sea under Ferdinand and Isabella, aimed at a learned readership of Paris scholars. The pages are dense black-letter text opening with large ornamented woodcut initial letters, with the decorative capitals A, E, P and others framed in foliate patterns of scrollwork and leaves that a designer could adapt for display lettering or borders.

America -- Discovery and exploration · Imprint 1532

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