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De originibus Americanis, : dissertationem ...

Horb, Johann Heinrich, 1645-1695, Wagner, Gottfried, 1652-1725 · 1669 · Lipsiæ, : literis Colerianis. · 1 picture

A Latin dissertation on the origins of the Americas, printed at Leipzig in 1669 by Johann Heinrich Horb and Gottfried Wagner for a scholarly readership interested in the peoples of the New World. The single picture is a heraldic achievement with a crested bird above a shield of chevrons and a ribbon bearing the motto Gaudeo, drawn in fine engraved line with stippled and hatched shading that a designer could borrow for emblem or crest work.

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