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Techniques and Reception of Prints in Central and Eastern Europe (15th–18th c.)
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Great Auk (? Mergus Americanus)

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

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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Great Auk (Plantin; Moretus) (Antwerp, Museum Plantin-Moretus) Part of Set for Clusius's Exoticorum libri (Plantin/Raphelengius) ◼

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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 (2025-08-16 12:42)