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Alexander's Flying Machine. Johann Hartlieb, Alexander. Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cgm 581 f. 133r
Johannes von Montuilla Ritter
(Itinerarius, in German; translation by Otto von Diemeringen.) Strasbourg: Johann Prüss, 1484. Fifth edition in German.
288 x 203 mm. 84 (of 87/88) leaves, with 144 (of 149) woodcuts in contemporary colouring.
Ob nur erfunden oder tatsächlich erlebt, Mandevilles im 14. Jahrhundert verfasste Abenteuer im Mittleren Osten, Palästina, Indien, Tibet, China, Ägypten usw. bilden die Grundlage für das gesamte Genre der Reiseliteratur. Die deutschen Ausgaben – alle ungemein selten – waren die ersten mit Holzschnittillustrationen.
Samu and our cousin Katja - and Sapi ofcourse. They look like characters from the movie "Heavenly Creatures".
Twas the Night before Christmas
And all through the house
Not a Creature was Stirring
Not even a Mouse....
Come back soon to see this piece take shape!
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Title Page: Monkey-Ana or Men, in Miniature
Designed by Thomas Landseer (British, London 1795–1880 London)
Publisher: Francis Graham Moon (British, London 1796–1871 Brighton) Publisher: Moon, Boys & Graves (London) Publisher: Pieri Benard (French) Date: December 1, 1827 Medium: Etching
The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Edward Topsell - The historie of serpents, or, The second booke of living creatures... (page 201, detail of hydra) 1608. "The historie of serpents. Or, The second booke of liuing creatures: wherein is contained their diuine, naturall, and morall descriptions, with their liuely figures, names, conditions, kindes and natures of all venemous beasts: with their seuerall poysons and antidotes; their deepe hatred to mankind, and the wonderfull worke of God in their creation, and destruction. Necessary and profitable to all sortes of men: collected out of diuine Scriptures, fathers, phylosophers, physitians, and poets: amplified with sundry accidentall histories, hierogliphicks, epigrams, emblems, and ænigmaticall obseruations. "