Tome premier.
A French-language illustrated travel collection, likely from the late seventeenth or early eighteenth century, assembled from accounts of voyages and foreign peoples and held in a Jungian library. The engravings show scenes of ceremony, dress, dwellings and daily labour among non-European peoples, rendered in dense crosshatched line. A designer could draw on their figure poses, layered crowd compositions and the way architecture and landscape frame small narrative groups.
