Histoire de Portugal, : contenant les entreprises, nauigations, & gestes memorables des Portugallois, tant en la conqueste des Indes Orientales par eux descouuertes, qu'és guerres d'Afrique & autres exploits, depuis l'an mil quatre cens nona[n]te six, sous Emmanuel premier, Iea[n] troisiesme, & Sebastia[n] premier du nom.

unknown, Osório, Jerónimo, 1506-1580. De rebus Emmanuelis. French, Castanheda, Fernão Lopes de, -1559. Historia do descobrimento e conquista da India pelos Portugueses. French · 1581 · A Paris, : De l'imprimerie de Pierre Cheuillot. · 26 pictures

A 1581 French-language history of Portugal's voyages, conquests and wars in Africa and the East Indies, printed in Paris by Pierre Cheuillot and translated from Osório and Castanheda for a French readership. The four pages shown carry woodcut plant illustrations, each with a single botanical specimen drawn in fine outline with leaves, stems, buds and fruit and captioned in French above or below, suggesting clean botanical line drawing a designer could adapt for herbal or specimen-style graphics.

Portugal -- History -- Period of discoveries, 1385-1580

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