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P.les du Chile.
A charming copper engraving depicting a town surrounded by a luxuriant landscape on the background and a couple of indigenous on the foreground.From the French text edition of Description d'Univers, 1683. by Allain Manneson Mallet (1630-1706), a well traveled military engineer and geographer who worked in 17th century France under King Louis XIV.
€60

Maker : MALLET, A.M.
Place : Paris
Date : 1683
[Collective suicide under Spanish rule.]
The natives of Hispaniola, who saw no end to the fearful oppression of Spanish rule, preferred death. So many, devoid of all hope, went into the woods to kill their children and hang themselves. After taking certain natural poisons, the women followed their husbands to death by means of the noose. Others threw themselves down mountains, jumped into the sea or into rivers, while some died by self-imposed starvation or even stabbed themselves to death with razor sharp stone knives:In 1631 Johann L...
€80

Maker : GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Place : Frankfurt, M.Merian
Date : 1633
Plants Lantor, Assa, Pimenta, Mangostan and Pepper.
Lantor is a kind of coconut palm (or Indian nut) with fronds as long as a human body. These fronds are used as paper. Pimenta del Rabo (or cubebe) grows grape-like on trees and is held in such esteem by the Indians that they cook and preserve them, rather than sell them to other countries. Also shown is the Tamarind tree or Assa, the plant Talasse grows in Java, and the Mangostan fruit and the black pepper is called ‘Sahang’ in Java.Theodore de Bry, a German engraver and book dealer, began a...
€80

Maker : DE BRY, Th.
Place : Frankfurt
Date : 1598
François.
A charming engraving of a French couple in 17th-century dress.Title in a curtain draped at top. French text on verso.From the original 1683 text edition of "Description d'Univers. . ." by Allain Manesson Mallet (1630-1706), a well travelled military engineer and geographer who worked in 17th century France under King Louis XIV.Published by Denys Thierry.
€50

Maker : MANESSON MALLET, A.
Place : Paris
Date : 1683
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75013, Ile-de-France, France
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