Allgemeine Historie der Reisen zu Wasser und Lande oder Sammlung aller Reisebeschreibungen, welche bis itzo in verschiedenen Sprachen von allen Völkern herausgegeben worden: und einen vollständigen Begriff von der neuern Erdbeschreibung und Geschichte machen ...
A general history of travel by sea and land, compiled from accounts published in many languages, edited by Johann Joachim Schwabe and Antoine François Prévost and printed in German in 1749 for readers wanting a broad picture of the world. The plates show a fortress with a plan and distant view, a procession of mounted and foot figures, and a walled city with numbered key, drawn in fine black line with dense crosshatching. A designer could take the crisp engraved line work, the bird's-eye city layouts, and the tight hatched shading as models for maps or historical diagrams.
