Copper plate engraving, 1671.
Image size 4 7/8 x 6 3/8" (125 x 162 mm).
Good condition. Black & white. LOCATION: New York City
Inventory Number: 68130
Price: $75.00
Publisher : Published by Jacob van Meurs, Amsterdam.
From Montanus' "De Nieuwe en Onbe kende Weereld: of Beschryving van America". This view shows a fantastic group of American animals, including a pocrupine, long-tailed monkey with a human face, a clawed creature (three toed sloth) with an Eskimo-like visage and a human-faced large cat. 18th-19th Century Subjects, Natural History - Animals & Insects, Small Mammals and Rodents