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Some years travels into divers parts of Africa, and Asia the Great. Describing more particularly the Empires of Persia and Industan ... As also, many ... kingdoms in the oriental India ...

Herbert, Thomas, Sir, 1606-1682 · 1677 · London : R. Everingham for R. Scot, etc. · 45 pictures

A 1677 London travel account by Sir Thomas Herbert, describing journeys through Africa and Asia, with Persia and India at its centre, written for an English reading public. Its pictures are small engraved views of landscape and map details, such as hills with trees, a fortified house, a coastline and a single volcanic peak, useful to a designer wanting simple antique topographic vignettes and cartographic lettering.

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