Joannes de Laet, Persia seu Regni Persici Status (1647)

Two illustrations from Joannes de Laet's Persia seu Regni Persici Status. De Laet was a Dutch geographer and director of the Dutch West India Company. In 1647 he published an interesting book on Persia that was based on existing European travelogues and reports. The book included eight illustrations, including two showing a Georgian man and woman. Both illustrations seem to be copies of a drawing from Thomas Herbert's travelogue published in 1638.