Indiae Orientalis pars VI. Veram et historicam descriptionem auriferi regni Guineae, ad Africam pertinentis, quod alias littus de Mina vocant, : continens, qua situs loci, ratio vrbium & domorum, portus item & flumina varia, cum variis incolarum superstitionibus, educatione, forma, commerciis, linguis & moribus, succincta breuitate explicantur & percensentur.
This is a 1604 Latin account of the Gold Coast of Guinea in Africa, published at Frankfurt by the de Bry brothers from the reports of Pieter de Marees, for a learned European readership interested in distant lands. Its pictures are engraved scenes of Africans at work, trade and daily life, with formal ornament and lettered capitals that a designer could draw on for period-style scenes, decorative borders and engraved line work.
