Novus orbis seu Descriptionis Indiae Occidentalis, libri XVIII.

Laet, Joannes de, 1581-1649, Brown, Harold, 1863-1900. fmo RIBRL, Murphy, Henry Cruse, 1810-1882. fmo RIBRL · 1633 · Lugd. Batav. [i.e. Leiden] : Apud Elzevirios · 24 pictures

Novus orbis is a 1633 Latin treatise on the Americas by Joannes de Laet, printed by the Elzevier press in Leiden for scholars and readers of geography and natural history. Its pictures are small printed ornaments: a carved-style cartouche with scrolls and flowers, a lion's head framed in acanthus foliage, and a decorated initial C with grotesque heads and dragons, useful to designers seeking historical border and initial-letter motifs.

Botany · Zoology · Natural history · Wyandot language · Nahuatl language · Quechua language · Tupi language · Arawak language · Indian linguistics · Imprint 1633

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