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Portrait of Nikitaras (Nikitas Stamatelopoulos).

Tags: Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Greek War of Independence, History, Nikitaras (Nikitas Stamatelopoulos), Peloponnese, Portraits, State and military institutions - Diplomatic relations, Weapons

Portrait of Laskarina Bouboulina.

Tags: Baskets, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Greek War of Independence, History, Islands of the Argo-saronic gulf, Jewellery, Laskarina Bouboulina, Portraits, Spetses, State and military institutions - Diplomatic relations, Women

Portrait of Theodoros Kolokotronis.

Tags: Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Greek War of Independence, History, Portraits, Shoes and footwear, State and military institutions - Diplomatic relations, Theodoros Kolokotronis, Weapons

Portrait of Dimitrios Ypsilantis.

Tags: Battles, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dimitrios Ypsilantis, Greece, Greek War of Independence, History, Horses, Phanariots, Portraits, State and military institutions - Diplomatic relations

Portrait of Alexander Mavrocordatos.

Tags: Alexander Mavrokordatos, Athens, Attica, Carpets, Costume - Hats and headwear, Furniture, Greece, Greek War of Independence, History, Interiors, Phanariots, Portraits, Shoes and footwear, State and military institutions - Diplomatic relations, Writing tools

Title page.

Tags: Title page

Monastery on the Pindus, between Resna and Ohrid.

Tags: Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Lake Ohrid, Monasteries, Mountains, Natural environment, Views

Bridge over the Drachor, Monastir [Bitola].

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Bitola / Manastir / gr. Monastiri, Bridges, Dragor river / anc. Hydragoras, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Natural environment, Rivers, Views

Bulgarian women in the bazaars of Monastir [Bitola].

Tags: Animals, Bitola / Manastir / gr. Monastiri, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dogs, Economic activities, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Human types, Merchants / Traders, Professions, Smoking, Social sphere and everyday life, Street markets and bazaars, Women

A Bulgarian bride.

Tags: Bulgarians, Ethnic groups, Greece, Human types, Kalamaria, Rites of passage, Thessaloniki, Wedding ceremonies, Women

View near Vodena [Edessa]. Mount Olympus in the distance.

Tags: Greece, Macedonia, Mount Olympus, Mountains, Natural environment

Jewish nurse and “chicatico”, Salonica.

Tags: Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Greece, Human types, Jews, Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Wet nurses, Women

Detail from the Arch of Galerius in Thessaloniki.

Tags: Arch of Galerius / Kamara (Thessaloniki), Architecture and built environment, Greece, Macedonia, Reliefs, Roman monuments, Thessaloniki, Views

The church of Hagioi Apostoloi in Thessaloniki.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Byzantine monuments, Churches, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Hagioi Apostoloi (Thessaloniki), Human types, Macedonia, Religious practices, Thessaloniki, Views, Women

The monastery of Saint Panteleimon at Mount Athos.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Boats and ships, Byzantine monuments, Greece, Macedonia, Monasteries, Monastery of Saint Panteleimon (Mount Athos), Mount Athos, Natural environment, Religious practices

Title page.

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Frontispiece to the edition. The house of the Mudir, Ottoman governor of Ohrid. A morning call in which Adelaide Mary Walker was present. An affluent Albanian lady pays a visit to the Turkish commander's wife, escorted by her young daughter. A maidservant offers the visitors flowers from the house's garden.

Tags: Albanians, Baskets, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Furniture, Interiors, Ohrid, Smoking, Social sphere and everyday life

Maronite costumes from the Holy Land.

Tags: Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Holy Land, Human types, Israel, Maronites, Palestine, Women

A sheikh and a woman from Deir el Qamar, Lebanon.

Tags: Costume - Hats and headwear, Deir el Qamar, Human types, Lebanon, Social sphere and everyday life, Women

Prisoners condemned to hard labour, at the castle of Acre. Among them, the governor of a local village, who has been found guilty of embezzlement.

Tags: Acre, Costume - Hats and headwear, Holy Land, Human types, Israel, Social sphere and everyday life

Costumes from the regions of Nazareth and Nablus.

Tags: Everyday objects / Domestic utensils and vessels, Human types, Israel, Nablus / anc. Neapolis, Nazareth, Palestine, Shoes and footwear, Social sphere and everyday life, Women

Depiction of diverse types of camel saddles.

Tags: Animals, Camels, Costume - Hats and headwear, Egypt, Human types, Natural environment, Social sphere and everyday life, Travel

Woman dancer of Cairo (Almeh).

Tags: Cairo, Costume - Hats and headwear, Cultural activities, Dance, Dancers, Egypt, Human types, Women

Portrait of the children of general Soliman Pacha.

Tags: Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, History, Portraits, State and military institutions - Diplomatic relations

Arab story teller entertaining the population of a Fellah village in Egypt.

Tags: Arabs, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Egypt, Ethnic groups, Human types, Social sphere and everyday life, Storytellers, Women

Egyptian cavalry soldiers at Giza.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Costume - Hats and headwear, Egypt, Giza, Horses, Human types, Smoking, Soldiers, State and military institutions - Diplomatic relations, Weapons

View of Strada Reale in Valletta, Malta.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Carriages, Costume - Hats and headwear, Horses, Human types, Malta, Modes of transport, Social sphere and everyday life, Valletta, Women

Tongue-shaped mineral which Piny named “glossopetra”, meaning tongue-stone in Greek.

Tags: Malta, Natural environment

Public baths at Tripoli, Lebanon.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Costume - Hats and headwear, Lebanon, Social sphere and everyday life, Tripoli (Lebanon)

Muslim ascetes, probably members of Dervish orders, whom Thevet encountered in Damascus.

Tags: Damascus, Human types, Religious practices, Syria

Banana tree seen by Thevet in Damascus.

Tags: Banana trees, Damascus, Natural environment, Plants, Syria

The tomb of Absalom at Cidro valley, Jerusalem. Muslims throw stones at the monument.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Costume - Hats and headwear, Holy Land, Jerusalem, Tomb of Absalom (Jerusalem)

A mummy seen by André Thevet in Egypt.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Egypt, Giza, Mummies

Rendering of the head of the Sphinx from Giza, Egypt.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Egypt, Giza

Members of the mythicla tribe of the Pyglimes kill cranes with arrows, mounted on rams, in accordance with Pliny's description.

Tags: Animals, Costume - Hats and headwear, Mythology, Natural environment

Giraffe.

Tags: Egypt, Natural environment

A muezzin calls the faithful to come and pray at the mosque. Muslims doing their ritual cleansing before entering the mosque to pray.

Tags: Costume - Hats and headwear, Human types, Muslim prayer, Religious practices, Social sphere and everyday life

Crocodiles in Egypt.

Tags: Egypt, Natural environment

Collection of fruits of a palm tree in Egypt.

Tags: Egypt, Human types, Natural environment, Social sphere and everyday life

A coin of emperor Antoninus Pius. A coin of emperor Germanicus. The drawings were probably based on descriptions of ancient coins rather than made from acctual items.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Coins

Ancient tomb outside the city of Rhodes.

Tags: Aegean islands, Art and antiquities, Coins, Funerary monuments, Greece, Rhodes

Camel.

Tags: Animals, Camels

Elephant.

Tags: Animals, Asia Minor, Elephants, Natural environment, Turkey

Wild donkey of Asia Minor.

Tags: Animals, Asia Minor, Equids, Natural environment, Turkey

Tiger from Hyrcania.

Tags: Animals, Costume - Hats and headwear, Human types, Natural environment, Tigers, Turkey, Weapons

A captive lion in Istanbul is taken around the streets leashed with a chain with bells, so that people can become aware of its presence.

Tags: Animals, Costume - Hats and headwear, Human types, Istanbul, Lions, Natural environment, Social sphere and everyday life, Thrace, Turkey

The Sultan rides to the mosque to pray on a Friday, escorted by a formal procession.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Costume - Hats and headwear, Horses, Human types, Istanbul, Janissaries, Ottoman officials, Religious practices, State and military institutions - Diplomatic relations, Sultans, Thrace, Turkey

Ancient Athenians slaughter a bear, according to the description transmitted by ancient authors.

Tags: Animals, Athens, Attica, Bears, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Human types, Imaginary representations - Reconstructions, Natural environment, Weapons

Men in ancient Athens shoot arrows at a wolf, in accordance with Plutarch's description.

Tags: Animals, Athens, Attica, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Human types, Imaginary representations - Reconstructions, Natural environment, Weapons, Wolves

Coat of arms of Count François de La Rochefoucauld, to whom the edition is dedicated.

Tags: Coats of arms – Emblems

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