Subject: Natural History, Animals
Period: 1578 (published)
Publication: Cosmographey
Color: Black & White
Size:
10.5 x 6 inches
26.7 x 15.2 cm
This unusual woodblock is from a German edition of Munster's monumental history of the world. It is a rather fanciful, and at the same time surprisingly accurate depiction of a rhinoceros. On verso is another illustration of soldiers riding an elephant.
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Condition: A+