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La nauigation du capitaine Martin Forbisher [sic] Anglois, és regions de west & nordwest, en l'année M.D. LXXVII. : Contenant les moeurs & façons de viure des peuples, & habita[n]s d'icelles, auec le portraict de leurs habits & armes, & autres choses memorables & singulieres, du tout incognues par deça

Settle, Dionyse, Pithou, Nicolas, 1524-1598 · 1578 · [La Rochelle or Geneva?] : M. D. LXXVIII. Pour Anthoine Chuppin. · 4 pictures

A 1578 French account of Martin Frobisher's voyage to the northwest, printed for Anthoine Chuppin and published with Nicolas Pithou's translation of Dionyse Settle's narrative, aimed at French readers curious about distant peoples and their customs. Its pictures are small Renaissance-style woodcut ornaments: a central grotesque mask flanked by winged creatures and scrolling foliage, a tasselled cartouche with a mask, and a foliate headpiece, with a marbled endpaper and bookplate from the John Carter Brown Library. A designer could draw on the dense strapwork, grotesque masks and interlaced scrollwork as models for decorative borders and emblems.

Frobisher, Martin, Sir, approximately 1535-1594 · Imprint 1578

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