Historia navigationis in Brasiliam quae et America dicitur. : Qua describitur authoris nauigatio, quaeque in mari vidit memoriae prodenda: Villagagnonis in America gesta: Brasiliensium victus & mores, à nostris admodum alieni, cum eorum linguae dialogo: animalia etiam, arbores, atque herbae reliquáque singularia & nobis penitus incognita.
A Latin account of a voyage to Brazil by Jean de Léry, a Calvinist minister, printed in Geneva in 1594 for a learned readership interested in the Tupi people, their customs, language and the local natural history. The pictures are crude black woodcut borders of putti, scrolls and foliage, followed by dense woodcut scenes of jungle, animals and figures that suggest how European printers pictured the New World. A designer could draw on the interlaced scroll ornament and the tangled, layered woodcut texture of the landscape scenes.
