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Les beautez de la Perse; ou, La description de ce qu'il y a de plus curieux dans ce royaume, enrichie de la carte du païs, & de plusieurs estampes dessignées sur les lieux

Daulier Deslandes, André, fl. 1664, V., A.D.D · 1673 · Paris, G. Clouzier · 14 pictures

Les beautez de la Perse is a 1673 Paris travel description of Persia by André Daulier Deslandes, published by G. Clouzier for a French reading public curious about the Persian kingdom. Its plates show Persepolis ruins, carved reliefs, rock-cut tombs and city views drawn from the places themselves, with a designer able to draw on their stone architecture, ruined colonnades, and hand-cut line shading for landscape and antiquity settings.

Marot, Louis

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