Histoire generalle des Indes Occidentales & terres neuues, qui iusques à present ont esté descouuertes,
A 1569 Paris edition of López de Gómara's history of the Spanish discoveries in the Indies, printed by Michel Sonnius for a French readership of armchair geographers and explorers. The pictures are woodcut historiated initials and a decorative headpiece with ornamental strapwork, scrolls, foliage and grotesque figures, offering a designer examples of Renaissance display lettering and border ornament.
