Adam Olearii Außführliche Beschreibung Der Kundbaren Reyse Nach Muscow und Persien: So durch gelegenheit einer Holsteinischen Gesandschafft von Gottorff auß an Michael Fedorowitz den grossen Zaar in Muscow, und Schach Sefi König in Persien geschehen ...
Adam Olearius's 1663 account of the Holstein embassy's travels from Gottorf to Muscovy and Persia, published in German for a German-reading public and held by Heidelberg University Library. The pages show engraved town views, a walled city on a river, and crowded scenes of figures in processions and at work, drawn in dense black-line woodcut style with ornamental running headers and printed captions. A designer could take from them the tight hatching, the cluster of small figures in landscape, and the layout of text-and-picture plates typical of seventeenth-century travel books.
