Subject: Chile, Native Americans
Period: 1684 (published)
Publication: Beschreibung des Gantzen Welt-Kreisses...
Color: Hand Color
Size:
3.9 x 5.7 inches
9.9 x 14.5 cm
This attractive engraving shows a pair of Chilean natives with a fortified city and mountains in the background. The title is contained in a banner-style cartouche typical of Mallet's engravings. From a German edition of Mallet's renowned Description de l'Univers. Blank verso.
References: King (2nd ed.) pp. 152-53; Pastoureau, MANESSON-MALLET I B.
Condition: A
Light foxing that is confined to the blank margins.