Paesi nouamente retrouati. & Nouo Mo[n]do da Alberico Vesputio Florentino intitulato

1508 · Stampato in Milano : Con la impensa de Io. Iacobo & fratelli da Lignano: & diligente cura & industria de Ioanne Angelo Scinzenzeler · 7 pictures

This is a 1508 Italian printed account of voyages to the newly found lands and New World, printed in Milan by Scinzenzeler for the Lignano brothers and attributed to Amerigo Vespucci, a Florentine navigator. The pages are dense blackletter-style roman type in two columns, with large decorated initial letters opening each chapter and short chapter headings in capitals, offering a designer historic letterforms, drop caps, and the layout of an early Renaissance print page.

Columbus, Christopher · Vespucci, Amerigo, 1451-1512 · Voyages and travels · America -- Discovery and exploration -- Italian · America -- Discovery and exploration -- Spanish · Imprint 1508

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