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Techniques and Reception of Prints in Central and Eastern Europe (15th–18th c.)
Things – T85657

Great Auk (? Mergus Americanus)

In Charles de L'Écluse (Clusius), Caroli Clvsii Atrebatis ... Exoticorvm Libri Decem Quibus Animalium, Plantarum ... historiae describuntur ..., Antwerp, Leiden: Officina Plantiniana (printer), Franciscus (I) Raphelengius (printer), August 1605 - December 1605 (Augsburg, SSB), p. 103

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p. 103 (3 of 20 in-Urus figures)
p. 101
p. 103
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  • Antwerp production place : August 1605 - December 1605
  • Leiden production place
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      "American diver": Earliest known illustration of the great auk (Pinguinus impennis), according to Jeremy Gaskell, in Who Killed the Great Auk? (Oxford University Press, 2000), p. 62-63

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    • Grażyna Jurkowlaniec (2025-01-26 10:07)

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    • Grażyna Jurkowlaniec

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    • Grażyna Jurkowlaniec (2025-01-26 10:10)