Regnvm Congo hoc est Vera descriptio regni Africani, qvod tam ab incolis qvam Lvsitanis Congus appellatur.
Pigafetta's 1598 account of the Kingdom of Congo, printed at Frankfurt by Wolfgang Richter for the de Bry brothers, drawing on Duarte Lopes's Portuguese reports and aimed at a learned Latin-reading European audience. The pictures are dense black-and-white copperplate engravings with Latin captions, showing African figures in ceremonial processions, hunting and fighting scenes, and an ornate title page framed by figures in architectural arches, offering a designer models of early modern engraved border and ornament.
