Description of a wood engraving illustrating the South American Indians (1505).
0000; Gale Group; Linguagem: English
Autores Resumo
"Reprinted ... from the Bulletin of the New York Public Library of September, 1922."--T.p., verso. The plate measures 24 x 33 cm., including four lines of German text at foot of illustration. "The probable date ... is 1505 ... the year in which the earliest editions appeared of the German version of the Mundus Novus of Amerigo Vespucci, from which most of the statements in the inscription appear to be taken ... The print ... [is] an early - if not the earliest - picture of American Indians."- p. 6-7. Book.
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