Giro del mondo del dottor d. Gio. Francesco Gemelli Careri
This 1699 Neapolitan travel account by Giovanni Francesco Gemelli Careri, printed in Naples by Giuseppe Roselli, describes his voyage around the world for a general readership of armchair travellers. Its copper-engraved plates, set in fine ruled frames, show tropical plants and fruits labelled with their local names, including cacao pods, mangoes, pineapples, and tamarind, with small landscapes behind them. A designer could draw on their tidy botanical layout, labelled specimen arrangement, and delicate hatching for botanical or exotic-food graphics.
