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A brief account of some travels in Hungaria, Servia, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Thessaly, Austria, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola, and Friuli, as also some observations on the gold, silver, copper, quick-silver mines, baths, and mineral waters in those parts. With the figures of some habits and remarkable places

Brown, Edward, 1644-1708 · 1673 · London : Printed by T. R. for Benj. Tooke, and are to be sold at the sign of the ship in St. Pauls Church-yard · 9 pictures

A 1673 London travel account by Edward Brown, physician, describing journeys through Hungary, Balkan lands, and Austrian provinces, with engraved plates of costumes and notable sites for an English readership. The pictures are copperplate engravings: a costumed figure with a staff, architectural monuments such as a pyramid-like tower and a ruined arch, and a distant town with a domed building, offering a designer examples of early engraved line work and antique architectural motifs.

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