Relation Herrn Petri Fernandes de Quir, spanischen Hauptmans [et]c. so er König. May. in Spanien [et]c. von dem new erfundnem vierten Theil der Welt (so bissher in Mappis oder Landafflen [sic] Terra Australis incognita genannt) vnd desselben Länder, Reichtumb vnd Fruchtbarkeit [et]c. vbergeben.

Queirós, Pedro Fernandes de, -1615 · 1611 · [Augsburg] : Anno MDC.XI. Gedruckt zu Augspurg, bey Chrysostomo Dabertzhofer. · 6 pictures

A 1611 German report by the Spanish navigator Pedro Fernandes de Queirós, printed at Augsburg by Chrysostom Dabertzhofer, presenting his account of the newly found southern continent to the King of Spain. Its pictures are woodcut decorative devices: ornamental cartouches with cherubs, a grotesque mask with ram heads and tassels, and a German text block with an initial letter. A designer could take from them the strapwork, cherub-and-scroll borders and mask motifs of early seventeenth-century German print ornament.

Imprint 1611

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