Visions of Persia : mapping the travels of Adam Olearius / Elio Christoph Brancaforte.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-232) and index.

I. Adam Olearius and the Journey to Muscovy and Persia -- Images of Persia: The Classical Tradition -- Early-Modern European Travelers to Persia -- The Holstein Mission to Persia -- Olearius's Travel Account -- The Illustrations in the Vermehrte Newe Beschreibung -- Olearius's Activities in Gottorf -- II. Adam Olearius and the Early-Modern Frontispiece -- The Frontispiece: The Development of the Genre -- Olearius and the Frontispiece -- Olearius's Frontispiece for the Offt Begehrte Beschreibung der Newen Orientalischen Rejse (1647) -- Olearius's Frontispiece for the Vermehrte Newe Beschreibung der Muscowitischen und Persischen Reyse (1656) -- The Foreign Editions of the Travel Account -- III. Adam Olearius and the Persianischer Rosenthal -- The Poet Sa'di -- Early-Modern European Translation of the Gulistan -- Apophthegmata -- The Frontispiece of the Persianischer Rosenthal -- Rubens and the Frontispiece -- Jan Janszoon Struys's Travel Account -- IV. Adam Olearius as Cartographer -- The Development of Cartography in Early-Modern Northern Europe -- Cartography at the Gottorf Court: Duke Frederick III and the Newe Landesbeschreibung (1652) -- Olearius's Nova Delineatio Persiae et Confiniorum (1655) -- The Caspian Sea -- Olearius and Islamic Cartography -- Olearius and the Caspian -- V. Conclusion.