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New discoveries : the sciences, inventions, and discoveries of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance as represented in 24 engravings issued in the early 1580's / by Stradanus.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Oblong NE674.S8 D53 1953
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Straet, Jan van der, 1523-1605.
- Series:
- Publication (Burndy Library) ; no. 8.
- Burndy Library. Publication ; no. 8
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Scientific discoveries in art.
- Science, Medieval, in art.
- Inventions in art.
- Science in art.
- Renaissance.
- Physical Description:
- 6 unnumbered pages, 24 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portrait ; 28 x 34 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Norwalk, Conn. : Burndy Library, 1953.
- Notes:
- In portfolio; title from cover of portfolio.
- Text signed: Bern Dibner.
- Includes reproductions, with descriptive letterpress, of engravings in the Burndy Library made from the artist's drawings and issued originally under the titles, Nova reperta (t.p. and 19 numb. plates) and Americae retectio (t.p. and 3 numb. plates)
- Local Notes:
- Penn Libraries copy has pasted to tail-edge flap of portfolio a card (5 x 9 cm.) which reads: January 1953. New Year's Greetings. Bern Dibner, President. Burndy Engineering Co. Burndy Canada Ltd.
- OCLC:
- 1903861
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