Things (Material, inanimate objects, mostly works of art, both preserved and unpreserved)
Iconography: [Ico744] Unicorn
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[T16935]Robert Walton (print publisher), A Booke of all Kinds of BEASTS, in their severall Shapes, Postures, and Proportions, being the third Part of the View of Creation. This, as also all other Parts, are Printed & Sold By Robert Walton, at the Globe & Compasses, near the Great North Door of St. Pauls Church (London, BM) ◼printing: impressionengravingpaperbook decoration: front matter2721741660 ‑ 16701660‑01‑011670‑12‑31
[T84352]Animals of America. In Arnoldus Montanus, America: being an accurate description of the Nevv VVorld, John Ogilby (translator), London: 1670 (Providence, RI, John Carter Brown Library), p. 173 ◼printing: impressionpage: figureengravingpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T39875]Quarterly Coat of Arms of the House of Wittelsbach with Lion and Unicorn as Supporters. In Theophylact Simocatta, Theophilacti scolastici Simocati ep[isto]le morales. Rurales et amatorie interpretatione latina, Nicolaus Copernicus (translator), Cracow: Jan Haller (printer), December 1509 (Cracow, BJ), fol. [1v] ◼drawingpage: figurepenpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T5816]Unicorn (Unicornis ein Einhorn). In Albertus Magnus, Thierbuch Alberti Magni ..., Walther Hermann Ryff (translator), Frankfurt am Main: Cyriacus Jacob (printer), 1545 (Munich, BSB), fol. H3 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurepaperbook decoration: illustration
[T45429]Heinrich (I) Vogtherr (printmaker attr.), Unicorn. In Michael Herr, Gründtlicher vnderricht warhaffte vnd eygentliche beschreibung ... aller vierfüssigen thier ..., Strasbourg: Balthasar Beck (printer), 1546 (Berlin, SBB), fol. A1r ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T50465]Unicorns. In Pierre Pomet, Histoire générale des drogues, traitant des plantes, des animaux et des minéraux, Paris: Augustine Pillon (printer), Jean-Baptiste Loyson (printer), 1694 (Paris, BnF), p. 9 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurepaperbook decoration: illustration
[T50464]Unicorn and Narwhal. In Michael Bernhard Valentini, Museum Museorum, Oder Vollständige Schau-Bühne Aller Materialien und Specereyen, Frankfurt am Main: Johann David Zunner (printer), 1714 (Bamberg, SBB), p. 481 ◼printing: impressionpage: figureetchingpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T70658]Unicorn (Vom Einhorn). In Heinrich von Hövel, Neuwer Wunderbarlicher Thiergarten ..., Frankfurt am Main: Matthäus Becker (printer), Heirs of Christian Egenolff (publisher), 1601 (Wrocław, BUWr), p. 38 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T70117]Jost Amman (printmaker), Unicorn. In Georg Schaller, Ein neuw Thierbuch ..., Frankfurt am Main: Sigmund Feyerabend (printer), 1569 (Munich, BSB), fol. F4r ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T81570]Unicorn (Von dem Einhorn). In Konrad von Megenberg, Naturbuch, vonn nutz, eigenschafft, wunderwirckung unnd Gebrauch aller Geschoepff, Frankfurt am Main: Christian Egenolff (printer), 1536 (Zürich, ETH-Bibliothek), fol. XXIIIv ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T58581]Animals (De fertilitate ueteris Germaniae). In Sebastian Münster, Cosmographiae uniuersalis Lib. VI in quibus, iuxta certiores fidei scriptorum ..., Basel: Heinrich Petri (printer), January 1550 - March 1550 (Cracow, MNK, BCzart), p. 284 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T75321]Hieronymus Kösler (goldsmith), Back cover - Creation of Eve, Warning of Adam and Eve, Expulsion from Paradise, and Labour of Adam and Eve (Toruń, Biblioteka Uniwersytecka). Part of Silver binding. Part of Fol. 2 from the Silver Library of Duke Albert of Prussia (Toruń, Biblioteka Uniwersytecka) ◼craftsset or complex object: bound volume: codex: covers or a part ofgilding, castingmetal: silverbook binding or part of1554 ‑ 15621554‑01‑011562‑12‑31
[T2321]Unicorn (Monoceros). In Conrad Gessner, Conradi Gesneri medici Tigurini Historiae Animalium Lib[er] I de Quadrupedibus uiuiparis ..., Zürich: Christoph Froschauer (printer), 1551 (Halle (Saale), ULB), p. 781 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T74881]Ferdinand Verbiest (designer), Kun yu quan tu (Full Map of the World ; simplified Chinese 坤舆全图; traditional Chinese: 坤輿全圖) (Washington, DC, Library of Congress) ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcut
[T72601]Unicorn dragon (Dracunculus Monoceros Illustriss. Card. Barberini). In Johann Faber, Ioannis Fabri Lyncei Bambergensis ... Animalia Mexicana ..., Rome: Giacomo Mascardi (printer), 1628 (London, BL), p. 816 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T57433]Unicorn under a Date Palm (Dactelbaum, Palma). In Hieronymus Bock, Kreuter Bůch ..., Strasbourg: Wendelin Rihel (printer), 1546 (Vienna, ÖNB), fol. XLIIIIr ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T69776]Unicorn II. In Georg Schaller, Ein neuw Thierbuch ..., Frankfurt am Main: Sigmund Feyerabend (printer), 1569 (Munich, BSB), fol. G1r ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T4518]Tabl. XI (Onager Aldro[vandi] / Monoceros seu Unicornu Iubatus / Monoceros seu Unicornu aliud). In Jan Jonston, Historiae Naturalis De Quadrupedibus Libri. Cum aeneis figuris ..., Amsterdam: Jan Janszoon Schipper (printer), 1657 (Washington, DC, Smithsonian Libraries), after p. 36 (ii) ◼printing: impressionpage: figureengravingpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T4517]Tabl. X (Monoceros / Capricornus Marinus / Monoceros). In Jan Jonston, Historiae Naturalis De Quadrupedibus Libri. Cum aeneis figuris ..., Amsterdam: Jan Janszoon Schipper (printer), 1657 (Washington, DC, Smithsonian Libraries), after p. 36 (i) ◼printing: impressionpage: figureengravingpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T72172]Casimiria (Wrocław, Oss.) ◼printing: impressionsingle piece: broadsidewoodcut, black letterpresspaper