Secundo volume delle navigationi et viaggi
A 1574 Venetian printing of Giovanni Battista Ramusio's collection of voyages and travels, published by the Giunti press for a scholarly and merchant readership. The pictures are woodcut decorated initials, each a large letter in a square frame filled with scrolling acanthus, leaves, birds and flowers, which a designer could use as models for ornamental capitals and framed borders.
