Histoire generalle des Indes Occidentales et terres neuues, qui iusques à present ont esté descouuertes.
A 1577 French translation of Francisco López de Gómara's history of the Spanish discovery and conquest of the Americas, printed in Paris by Michel Sonnius for a general readership, now held by the John Carter Brown Library. Its pictures are decorative woodcut initial letters, one a C enclosing a winged, bird-like creature with a human figure, another a P filled with foliage, and a bookplate coat of arms, giving a designer historic examples of ornamented capitals and interlacing acanthus scrollwork.
