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Auction 129, Lot 842

"Das Their Rhinoceros genannt", Munster, Sebastian

Subject: Animals

Period: 1578 (published)

Publication: Cosmographia

Color: Hand Color

Size:
6 x 4 inches
15.2 x 10.2 cm
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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 a surprisingly accurate depiction of a rhinoceros. On verso is another illustration of soldiers riding an elephant. On a full sheet (8.2" x 13.2") with text below.

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Condition: A

Lightly toned with some minor damp stains in blank margins.

Estimate: $140 - $170

Sold for: $110

Closed on 9/23/2009

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