Vier Bucher Von de Raisz vnd Schiffart in die Turckey: Mit ein vnnd sextzich Mann vnnd Weibliche Figuren, nach dem leben abgesetzt, nach verenderung der gestalt der Lender ... so wol inn Frid als Kriegzeiten ...
A 1576 German travel book by Nicolas de Nicolay, printed for readers interested in Turkey and the Ottoman lands, with hand-coloured woodcut plates of costumed figures set in decorative borders. The pictures show men in layered robes, a mounted rider in a feathered wing headdress, and a lutenist with a tall yellow hat, framed by ornate borders and a black-on-cream decorative initial, offering a designer ideas for costume, border ornament, and sixteenth-century colour printing.
