L'histoire dv Nouveau monde, ou, Description des Indes occidentales : contenant dix-huict liures
A 1640 French edition of Joannes de Laet's history of the New World, a description of the West Indies in eighteen books, printed at Leiden by the Elseviers for the university trade and held by the Getty Research Institute. Its woodcuts show New World plants and fruits with ornamental initial letters, and a designer could draw on the crisp hatched engraving of the botanical studies and the dense decorative capitals.
