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Frontispieces (40 Subjects)

Frontispiece with allegorical reprsentation of Motraye's voyages. Snapshots from his travel experiences in the background, subjects related to geography, antiquity and history in the foreground.

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Frontispiece: The voyage of Cornelis de Bruyn.

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Athens from Plato's Academy.

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The ancient city of Selinus, Traianopolis in the Roman era, (today Gazipaşa) on the coast of Cilicia.

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Frontispiece. Allegoric representation of the Accademia Cosmografica degli Argonauti that Coronelli founded in Venice.

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Frontispiece: The Coat of Arms of the Knights Hospitaller of Malta.

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Frontispiece: Imaginary landscape. The author composes his work and his companion is drawing.

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Portrait of Emperor Constantine I the Great, founder of Constantinople.

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Allegoric representation of the triumph of Venice over the Ottoman Empire during the sixth Ottoman-Venetian War.

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Προμετωπίδα. Αλληγορική παράσταση των ταξιδιών του Ωμπρί ντε λα Μοτράιγ (Aubry de la Motraye).

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Frontispiece: Allegoric representation of Human Virtues.

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Title page of the second volume of the book. Medallions of three Athenian demes: Marathon, Rhamnous and Prasiai.

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Frontispiece: The Lion of Venice.

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Frontispiece: Portrait of Nicholas Revett.

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Frontispiece. Portrait of Sultan Abdülmecid I.

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Frontispiece. Allegory of author's voyage.

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Frontispiece: Portrait of James Stuart.

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Frontispiece to “Relation du naufrage d'un vaiseau Hollandois nomme ter Schellingh” by Frans Janszoon van der Heiden.

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Frontispiece of the first volume of the book. Ottoman official presents his compliments to the Sultan.

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Frontispiece: Author's dedication to Louis de Machault d'Arnouville, archbishop of Amiens.

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Frontispiece of the second volume of the book: The Sultan's enthronement.

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Allegoric scene: War and Peace as female figures. At the center the emblem of the Lord of Pembroke, to whom Pococke dedicated his work.

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Title page of vol. I.

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Dedication of the author to the Duke John Friedrich of Württemberg.

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Frontispiece. Portrait of the author, Hans Jacob Breuning, at the age of fifty-eight, surrounded by allegoric figures: Truth prevails over Slander and Envy.

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Frontispiece of the second travel of Jacob Breuning (from Istanbul to Egypt).

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Frontispiece of the third travel of Jacob Breuning, from Egypt to Palestine.

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Frontispiece of the fourth travel of Jacob Breuning, in Palestine, Tripoli and Syria.

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