Dit boecxken leert hoe men mach voghelen vanghen metten handen. Ende hoemen mach visschen vanghe[n] mette[n] handen ande oeck andersins

Back, Goovaert, -1517, printer, Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) · 1500 · [Antwerp, Govaert Bac, ca. 1500] · 8 pictures

This is a Dutch-language woodcut book printed in Antwerp by Govaert Bac around 1500, a small manual teaching readers how to catch birds and fish by hand and by other means. Its pictures are simple black-and-white woodcuts with a plain, repeated framing and short captions, showing a designer how early print compresses action, landscape, and text into tidy rectangular panels.

Antwerp · Belgium · Bird trapping · Early works to 1800 · Fishing · Incunabula

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