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Nye vnbekande Lande Unde eine nye Werldt in korter vorgangener Tyd gefunden

unknown, Fracanzano, da Montalboddo, active 1507-1522, Sobolevskiĭ, Sergeĭ Aleksandrovich, 1803-1870. fmo RPJCB · 1508 · [Nuremberg] : Unde dörch my Jürgen stüchssen to Nüreinberch gedrücket vn[d] vulendet ... · 4 pictures

A 1508 Low German travel compilation printed in Nuremberg by Jürgen Stuchs, describing newly found lands and a new world, collected from earlier voyages and aimed at a general German-reading public. Its pages show dense blackletter columns with decorated initial capitals, a woodcut title panel where a globe sits inside looping ribbon scrolls carrying the text, and a later bookplate from the Sobolevskiĭ library. A designer could draw on the bold woodcut initials and the scroll-framed globe as early print typography and cartographic motifs.

Vespucci, Amerigo, 1451-1512 · Columbus, Christopher · Voyages and travels · Imprint 1508

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