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Crawfurd's Gesandtschafts-Reise nach Siam und Cochin-China, und Velasco's Reise in Japan ; mit Kupfern

Crawfurd, John, Velasco, Luis, de, Dietzsch, Karl Friedrich · 1832 · E. Berger's Buchhandlung · 3 pictures

A German travel account from 1832, published by E. Berger's Buchhandlung and translated by Karl Friedrich Dietzsch, combining John Crawfurd's embassy voyage to Siam and Cochin-China with Luis de Velasco's journey to Japan for a general reading public. Its copperplate engravings show costumed European and Asian figures, a formal audience chamber with prostrate courtiers, and an elephant fighting a tiger in a palm-lined landscape, giving a designer period scenes of foreign court life and exotic animals in a restrained engraved style.

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