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The Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493, a global geographical overview, provides an early benchmark for comparison |
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The "Cosmographia" (1544) of Sebastian Münster (1488-1552) was another extremely influential precursor |
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Theodore De Bry's "India Orientalis" (c.1599) provided some remarkable engravings of scenes on the Malabar Coast, and in Ceylon and Indonesia |
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In 1667, the Dutch Jesuit priest Cornelius Hazart published a "Religious History of the Whole World" |
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Some of the "curiosities
and wonders" of east and west compiled by Simon de
Vries, Utrecht, 1682 |
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Alain Manesson Mallet then produced his extremely popular "Description de l'Univers" (Paris, 1683), which was reprinted many times in several European languages |
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In 1693, Johannes Nieuhof published his "Voyages and
travels into Brasil, and the East Indies," with many
views of the Malabar Coast |
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Cornelis de Bruyn, a Dutch artist, depicted some of the places he had visited during his travels in the Levant and beyond (c.1699) |
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The peoples of the world as they were envisioned in Paris in 1705, according to "La Geographie Universelle," by La Croix |
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During the early 1700's (1706-), Pieter van der Aa
published populst travel narratives and books about world
cultures that were full of remarkably lively engravings |
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Bernard Picart's nine-volume "Religious Ceremonies and Customs of All the Peoples of the World" (1722, 1728) became widely influential throughout Europe; |
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In 1724-26, the Dutch missionary Francois Valentijn
published a record of his travels in the East Indies |
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Johann Jakob Scheuchzer in his "Physica Sacra" (1733) depicted everything-- ivory-hunts and whaling, animals and plants, idol-making and Armageddon |
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Thomas Salmon claimed to cover "Modern History: or, the Present State of all Nations" (London, 1739) |
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"Histoire générale des Voyages (Paris, 1746-1759; 15 volumes) by l'Abbé Antoine François Prévost, contained many maps and views by *Jacques-Nicolas Bellin* |
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The beautiful
four-volume "Collection of the Dresses of Different
Nations" (London: 1757-72) by Thomas Jefferys has
influenced theatrical costume design ever since |
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The peoples of the world, according to "A New Geographical Dictionary" by J. Coote, London, 1760 |
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"A New Universal Collection of Voyages and Travels, from the Earliest Accounts to the present time...", by Edward Cavendish Drake, London, 1771 |
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William Hurd (Amsterdam, 1781) undertook to describe all the world's religions |
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A tremendous 14-volume set of early European travel narratives was compiled and published by Robert Kerr (1755-1813) |
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The botanist and explorer Pierre Sonnerat depicted
not only plants, but also aspects of Hindu religious
life (Paris, 1782) |
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In his "Costumes Civils" (Paris, 1789) Sylvain Maréchal depicted styles of dress around the world |
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A similar collection was that of Teodoro Viero,
published from Venice, in 1790 |
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In 1843, the French geographer Thunot Duvotenay published an atlas full of Indian religious mythology, historical figures, and architectural views |
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And in the same year Ernest Breton published his
lively architectural overview "Monuments du tous les
peuples" (Paris, 1843), full of small vignettes |
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The well-known publisher A. Fullarton of Edinburgh released in 1850 a "Gazetteer of the World" in which a somewhat misty India loomed very large |