Die ritterlich vnd lobwirdig Raiss des gestre[n]gen vnd über all ander weyt erfarnen Ritters vn[d] Landtfarers, Herren Ludowico Vartomans von Bolonia. Sagent vo[n] den Landen Egipto. Syria, vo[n] bayden Arabia. Persia. India. vn[d] Ethiopia .

Varthema, Lodovico de, active 15th century, Herr, Michael, -approximately 1550 · 1518 · Getruckt in der kaiserlich Stat Augsburg, : [Erhard Öglin?] · 16 pictures

A 1518 German translation of Lodovico de Varthema's travel account of Egypt, Syria, Arabia, Persia, India and Ethiopia, printed in Augsburg and translated by Michael Herr for German-speaking readers. The woodcut pictures show travellers in Arabic and Eastern dress, merchants at market and people at work, drawn in dense black-line woodcut with the text set in blocks around them, a model for dense early-sixteenth-century print layouts.

Asia -- Description and travel · Africa -- Description and travel

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