Effigies regum ac principum, eorum scilicet, quor[um] vis ac potentia in re nautica seu marina prae caeteris spectabilis est : quibus propter materi[a]e affinitatem adiect[a]e sunt et imagines praestantissimorum ac maximè illustrium heroum, quorum virtus ac solertia in expeditionibus nauticis praecipuè claruit : summa diligentia et artificio depictae, et tabellis aeneis incisae / à Crispiano Passaeo Zelando ; adiectis in singulas hexastichis Mattiae Quadi chalcographi.

Engraved title page; imprint from colophon.
Imperfect: lacks the double plate of the map of the world as describe in Brunet.
The 18 historical portraits comprise: Clement VIII, Philip II, Henri IV of France, Queen Elizabeth I, James I, King of Great Britian (VI of Scotland), Sigismund III of Poland, Sultan Mohamet II, Christian IV, Mauritius of Naussau, Pasquale Cicogna, Doge of Venice, Andrea Doria, Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, Magellan, Pizzaro, Renate Laudonniere, Francis Drake and Thomas Candish (Cavendish).