Le voyage de l'illustre seigneur et cheualier François Drach, admiral d'Angleterre, à l'entour du monde

unknown · 1627 · A Paris, : chez Iean Gesselin, ruë Sainct Iacques, à la belle image: & en sa boutique au palais en la gallerie des prisonniers. · 2 pictures

A 1627 French account of Francis Drake's circumnavigation of the world, printed in Paris by Jean Gesselin for readers of voyage narratives. Its pictures are small woodcut ornaments: a decorated initial A beside printed French text, and an oval emblem with a winged griffin in a laurel wreath bearing a Latin motto, showing how compact border and frame work can organise a page.

Drake, Francis, approximately 1540-1596 · Voyages around the world · Explorers

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