L'histoire du nouveau monde ou Description des Indes Occidentales, : contenant dix-huict liures,
A 1640 Leiden edition of Joannes de Laet's history of the New World, printed by the Elzevier house for scholars and readers of Dutch and French, describing the Indies in eighteen books. The pictures are small woodcut-style printers' ornaments: a lion-masked scrolling cartouche, a decorated initial L with interlace, and a foliate frieze, useful for designers studying seventeenth-century border and initial design.
