Historia e gloriosi gesti : et vittoriose imprese fatte contra Turchi dal signor D. Giorgio Castriotto, detto Scanderbeg. Prencipe d'Epirro ..
This 1679 Venetian book is a printed history of the Albanian prince Scanderbeg's campaigns against the Turks, drawn from a copy once owned by John Adams and now held by the Boston Public Library. The first picture is a round oval-framed bust portrait of a man in dark dress, with a plain halftone finish that suits a formal frontispiece or a classic portrait vignette. The second is a rotated, low-contrast view of a two-storey building with a steep roof and a bare tree, useful for simple rural architecture sketches.
