Georgi Marcgravi de Liebstad, misnici Germani, Historiæ rerum naturalium Brasiliæ, libri octo ... : Cum appendice de Tapuyis, et Chilensibus.

Marggraf, Georg, 1610-1644, Laet, Joannes de, 1581-1649, Augustus Frederick, Prince, Duke of Sussex, 1773-1843. fmo RPJCB · 1648 · [Lugdun. Batavorum, : apud Franciscum Hackium, ; et Amstelodami, : apud Lud. Elzevirium.] · 42 pictures

Georgi Marcgrave's 1648 natural history of Brazil, printed in Leiden and Amsterdam by the Elzevirs, is a Latin scholarly survey of Brazilian plants, animals and peoples, written for European naturalists. Its woodcut fish are drawn in profile with fine hatched scales, fins and spines, offering a designer plain, precise linework for depicting marine life.

Natural history · Indians of South America · Indian linguistics · Imprint 1648

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