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post again when I find my way back to the complete work.
I think it was at the Library of Congress but..?
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A Portuguese anonymous handpainted series of 25
maps covering most known areas of the world in ~1555
at the National Maritime Museum in UK.
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Gaguinus, Robertus; Ed. Jodocus Badius Ascensius
~1500. somewhere in the Herzog August Bibliothek.
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Idea magazine for lovers of gardens, English plants
and for owners of landguetern 1797 (ebay)
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the planets from the Sun in the Copernican System.
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E Zimmerman 1783 somewhere in Braunschwieg University Library.
Click the images for full size or near full size versions. Just a motley bunch collected while fossicking. That unborn elephant image is particularly amazing.
2 comments :
Fossicking! You must be Australian!
Heh. I didn't realise that. I note that it's in the American Heritage Dictionary and no mention of coloquialism!
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