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Frontispiece: Composition of Roman antiquities.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Athena, Frontispieces, Italy, Roman monuments, Sculptures

Frontispiece to the fourth volume of the edition: Monumental structure on Tiber river (imaginary depiction).

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Frontispieces, Imaginary representations - Reconstructions, Italy, Rome

Frontispiece: Imaginary depiction of the Campus Martius (Martian Field), Rome.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Campus Martius (Rome), Frontispieces, Imaginary representations - Reconstructions, Italy, Roman architecture, Roman monuments, Rome

Frontispiece: Imaginary depiction of the intersection of Via Appia and Via Ardeatina.

Tags: Appian Way / Via Appia, Art and antiquities, Frontispieces, Imaginary representations - Reconstructions, Italy, Rome

Frontispiece. Dance scene before the altar of goddess Artemis.

Tags: Costume - Hats and headwear, Cultural activities, Dance, Dancers, Frontispieces, Greece, Human types, Imaginary representations - Reconstructions, Music, Musical instruments, Musicians, Religious practices, Sacrifices, Sculptures, Shoes and footwear, Women

Frontispiece. Allegory of Venice's victory in the Sixth Ottoman-Venetian War.

Tags: Allegories, Frontispieces, Ottoman–Venetian Wars

Frontispiece with themes related to the author's journey.

Tags: Animals, Baskets, Camels, Caravans, Costume - Hats and headwear, Egypt, Ethnic groups, Frontispieces, Human types, Maps, Travel, Turkey

Frontispiece. Scene from ancient vase: Orestes and Electra offer a Libation at the tomb of Agamemnon.

Tags: Ancient pottery / Vase painting, Art and antiquities, Electra, Frontispieces, Greece, Greek mythology, Orestes

Frontispiece: The Lion of Venice.

Tags: Boats and ships, Frontispieces, Italy, Lion of Venice, Veneto, Venice

Frontispiece of the fifth travel of Jacob Breuning, return to Europe.

Tags: Frontispieces, Title page

Frontispiece of the fourth travel of Jacob Breuning, in Palestine, Tripoli and Syria.

Tags: Frontispieces, Title page

Frontispiece of the third travel of Jacob Breuning, from Egypt to Palestine.

Tags: Frontispieces, Title page

Frontispiece of the second travel of Jacob Breuning (from Istanbul to Egypt).

Tags: Frontispieces, Title page

Frontispiece. Portrait of the author, Hans Jacob Breuning, at the age of fifty-eight, surrounded by allegoric figures: Truth prevails over Slander and Envy.

Tags: Allegories, Author portraits, Frontispieces, Hans Jacob Breüning, Portraits

Dedication of the author to the Duke John Friedrich of Württemberg.

Tags: Coats of arms – Emblems, Frontispieces

Title page of vol. I.

Tags: Frontispieces

Allegoric scene: War and Peace as female figures. At the center the emblem of the Lord of Pembroke, to whom Pococke dedicated his work.

Tags: Allegories, Coats of arms – Emblems, Frontispieces

Frontispiece of the second volume of the book: The Sultan's enthronement.

Tags: Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Frontispieces, Istanbul, Ottoman officials, Ottoman palaces, Ottomans, Shoes and footwear, State and military institutions - Diplomatic relations, Sultans, Thrace, Turkey

Frontispiece: Author's dedication to Louis de Machault d'Arnouville, archbishop of Amiens.

Tags: Coats of arms – Emblems, Frontispieces, Louis de Machault d'Arnouville

Frontispiece of the first volume of the book. Ottoman official presents his compliments to the Sultan.

Tags: Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Frontispieces, Istanbul, Ottoman officials, Ottoman palaces, Ottomans, Shoes and footwear, State and military institutions - Diplomatic relations, Sultans, Thrace, Turkey

Frontispiece to “Relation du naufrage d'un vaiseau Hollandois nomme ter Schellingh” by Frans Janszoon van der Heiden.

Tags: Boats and ships, Frans Janszoon van der Heiden, Frontispieces, History, Sailors, Shipwrecks, Thailand

Frontispiece: Portrait of James Stuart.

Tags: Author portraits, Frontispieces, James Stuart, Portraits

Frontispiece. Allegory of author's voyage.

Tags: Agricultural tools, Alexander Drummond, Architects, Architectural instruments, Art and antiquities, Athens, Author portraits, Boats and ships, Books, Cannons, Central Greece, Frontispieces, Greece, Musical instruments, Pausanias, Weapons, Women

Frontispiece. Portrait of Sultan Abdülmecid I.

Tags: Abdülmecid I / I. Abdülmecid, Costume - Hats and headwear, Frontispieces, Portraits, Sultans

Frontispiece: Portrait of Nicholas Revett.

Tags: Author portraits, Frontispieces, Nicholas Revett, Title page

Frontispiece.

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Frontispiece.

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Frontispiece: The Lion of Venice.

Tags: Boats and ships, Frontispieces, Lion of Venice, Title page, Venice

Title page of the second volume of the book. Medallions of three Athenian demes: Marathon, Rhamnous and Prasiai.

Tags: Frontispieces, Greece

Frontispiece: Allegoric representation of Human Virtues.

Tags: Frontispieces

Προμετωπίδα. Αλληγορική παράσταση των ταξιδιών του Ωμπρί ντε λα Μοτράιγ (Aubry de la Motraye).

Tags: Frontispieces

Allegoric representation of the triumph of Venice over the Ottoman Empire during the sixth Ottoman-Venetian War.

Tags: Frontispieces, Ottoman–Venetian Wars, State and military institutions - Diplomatic relations, Venice

Portrait of Emperor Constantine I the Great, founder of Constantinople.

Tags: Byzantine emperors, Constantine the Great, Frontispieces, Istanbul, Portraits, Thrace

Frontispiece: Imaginary landscape. The author composes his work and his companion is drawing.

Tags: Animals, Author portraits, Frontispieces, Painters / Engravers, Portraits, Ruins

Frontispiece: The Coat of Arms of the Knights Hospitaller of Malta.

Tags: Coats of arms – Emblems, Frontispieces, Knights Hospitaller, Malta

Frontispiece. Allegoric representation of the Accademia Cosmografica degli Argonauti that Coronelli founded in Venice.

Tags: Frontispieces

The ancient city of Selinus, Traianopolis in the Roman era, (today Gazipaşa) on the coast of Cilicia.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Asia Minor, Boats and ships, Castles and fortresses, Cilicia, Frontispieces, Gazipaşa / anc. Selinus

Athens from Plato's Academy.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Animals, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Frontispieces, Greece, Horses, Human types, Parthenon, Views, Women

Frontispiece: The voyage of Cornelis de Bruyn.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Frontispieces

Frontispiece with allegorical reprsentation of Motraye's voyages. Snapshots from his travel experiences in the background, subjects related to geography, antiquity and history in the foreground.

Tags: Allegories, Frontispieces

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