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Historien der Königkreich, Hispannien, Portugal, vnd Aphrica, darauss dann zusehen, in welcher Zeit, sonderlich Portugal, seinen Anfang genommen, von weine dasselbig zum Königreich erhaben, was dieselbigen Könige für Krieg vnnd Gewerb, zu Wasser vnnd Land geführet. ...

Conestaggio, Geronimo, d. 1635, Silva, Juan de, 1528-1601 · 1589 · Gedruckt in der Fürstlichen Haupstatt München, : bey Adam Berg. · 8 pictures

A German translation of a Spanish and Portuguese history of Spain, Portugal and Africa, written by Geronimo Conestaggio and Juan de Silva and printed in Munich in 1589 by Adam Berg for a German-reading readership. The pictures are small black woodcut ornaments, printed as headpieces and tailpieces, with dense scrolling foliage, C-scrolls and symmetrical bilateral patterns that a designer could draw on for borders and dividers.

Imprint 1589

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