Histoire des découvertes et conquêtes de l'Amérique / par l'abbe L ..
A French-language history of the discovery and conquest of America, written by an abbé identified only as H. and published in Limoges by Barbou Frères in 1845, apparently for a general reading audience. Its pictures are the decorated publisher's binding: a green and gold rococo frame with pink and blue flower sprigs around an oval panel of a wheat and grain bouquet, shown front cover and spine. A designer could take its symmetrical rococo scrollwork and floral-panel layout as a model for ornamental borders.
