Coryat's Crudities, hastily gobled up in five moneths travells in France, Savoy, Italy, Rhetia commonly called the Grisons country, Helvetia alias Switzerland, some parts of high Germany and the Netherlands; newly digested in the hungry aire of Odcombe in the county of Somerset, and now dispersed to the nourishment of the travelling members of this kingdome
Coryat's Crudities is a 1611 travel account by Thomas Coryate, an Englishman who recorded a five-month journey through France, Savoy, Italy, the Grisons and Switzerland for readers at home in England. The picture is a rotated engraving of an elaborate clock or astronomical instrument, with a dial, figures, and ornamental architecture, showing dense detail a designer could use for period mechanical or ornamental motifs.
