Chorographia Tartariae: oder warhafftige Beschreibung der uberaus wunderbahrlichen Reise, welche ... Marcus Polus, mit dem zunahmen Million ... in die Oriental und Morgenländer, sonderlich aber in die Tartarey ... verrichtet ...
A 1611 German translation of Marco Polo's travel account, edited by Hieronymus Megiser from Ramusio's Italian text and issued for a readership interested in Tartary and the East. The pages carry crude woodcut illustrations, several hand-coloured in red and brown, showing mounted warriors in combat, a battle scene with figures on foot, and a line of men with long poles beside a tree. A designer might take from them the loose, energetic linework and the rough registration of colour that give early print its raw character.
