Relation ou voyage de l'isle de Ceylan, dans les Indes orientales. Contenant une description exacte de cette isle, la forme de son gouvernement, le commerce, les moeurs, les coûtumes, & la religion de ses habitans:
This is a 1693 French-language travel account by Robert Knox, published in Amsterdam by P. Marret, describing the island of Ceylon, its government, trade, customs and religion for European readers. The engravings show Sinhalese figures in everyday activity: a man leading a bowed figure by a cord, a bow-and-arrow hunter with a pipe, a man ploughing behind a yoked ox, and a fisherman hauling a conical basket trap through shallow water. A designer could draw on their simple outline hatching, flat ground lines and sparse landscape settings as a model for period-style line illustration.
