The first booke of the Historie of the discouerie and conquest of the East Indias : enterprised by the Portingales in their daungerous nauigations in the time of King Don Iohn, the second of that name : vvhich historie conteineth much varietie of matter, very profitable for all nauigators and not vnpleasaunt to the readers
A 1582 English translation printed in London by Thomas East of Fernao Lopes de Castanheda's history of Portuguese voyages and conquests in the East Indies, addressed to navigators and general readers. Its pages are dense black-letter text set in justified columns, opening with large decorated initials containing figures, animals and foliage that a designer could draw on for ornamental capitals and lettering treatments.
