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A photograph of the Sukh Mahal (Palace of Rest) in Bundi, Rajasthan.

A sketch showing a view of a street in Jodhpur, India.

Illustrations of locations from Rudyard Kipling's Letters of Marque.

This is an 1898 image from Ella Constance Sykes's travel memoir 'Through Persia on a Side-Saddle' of Qal'eh Dokhtar, a castle erected in 209 AD by Ardashir I in present-day Fars, Iran.

The item is a portrait of Rudyard Kipling by Bourne & Shepherd, circa 1892

This is a portrait by Pompeo Batoni of Francis Basset (1715–1769), an an English nobleman and politician, who embarked on a Grand Tour of Italy in 1777. The image shows Castel Sant'Angelo and St. Peter's Basilica in the background.

Originally written in the second century CE, Pausanias' Description of Greece is shown here in a fifteenth century manuscript, and tells the cultural geography of Greece from a Roman perspective.

This item is an atlas map of Rajputana and Ajmere-Mewara, India, from 1894.

This is a work by the Italian Orientalist painter Nicola Forcella, entitled 'Dans le souk aux cuivres' (c. 1868)

This is the cover for John Murray's 1871 travel guide 'Handbook for Travellers in Turkey in Asia including Constantinople, the Bosphorus, Dardanelles, Brousa and Plain of Troy.'