Description of a wood engraving illustrating the South American Indians (1505) / by Wilberforce Eames.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eames, Wilberforce, 1855-1937.

Series:

Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926.

Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of South America--Pictorial works.

Indians of South America.

Indians of South America--Brazil.

Wood-engraving, German.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (7 p., [1] leaf of plates (fold.) ) fold. ill. ;

Other Title:

Description of a wood engraving illustrating the South American Indians

Place of Publication:

[New York] : New York Public Library, 1922.

Notes:

"Reprinted ... from the Bulletin of the New York Public Library of September, 1922."--T.p., verso.

The plate measures 24 x 33 cm., including four lines of German text at foot of illustration.

"The probable date ... is 1505 ... the year in which the earliest editions appeared of the German version of the Mundus Novus of Amerigo Vespucci, from which most of the statements in the inscription appear to be taken ... The print ... [is] an early - if not the earliest - picture of American Indians."- p. 6-7.

Reproduction of original from The American Antiquarian Society.

Sabin no. 99362.

OCLC:

12