Mundus nouus : De natura et moribus [et] ceteris id g[e]n[er]is ge[n]tis que i[n] nouo mu[n]do opera [et] impe[n]sis serenissimi Portugallie regis superioribus a[n]nis inuento.

Vespucci, Amerigo, 1451-1512 · 1505 · [Antwerp : Wm. Vorsterman] · 1 picture

Mundus nouus is a 1505 Antwerp printing by Amerigo Vespucci, issued by the Vorsterman press and describing the New World for a Latin-reading public. The picture is a printer's device, a two-headed crowned eagle with a castle-and-lion shield at its breast, cut in bold black woodcut with spread wings and a ground line. A designer could take from it the heraldic symmetry and the strong black-and-white silhouette of an emblem used as a publisher's mark.

America -- Discovery and exploration · Imprint 1505

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