Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: [Vertrek van den Autheur van Missilimakinak ...]
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Accession number:
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08211
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Record number:
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08211-9
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JCB call number:
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H704 B479g1
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Image title:
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[Vertrek van den Autheur van Missilimakinak ...]
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Place image published:
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[Leiden]
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Image publisher:
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[Pieter van der Aa]
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Image date:
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[1704]
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Image function:
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fold-out plate; part 2, following p. 192
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Technique:
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engraving
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Image dimension height:
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12.6 cm.
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Image dimension width:
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16.1 cm.
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Page dimension height:
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16.2 cm.
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Page dimension width:
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20.5 cm
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Materials medium:
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ink
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Materials support:
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paper
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Description:
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European men hunt and kill a bear at Michilimackinac or Mackinac Island. Includes a canoe, axe or hatchet, and guns or muskets.
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Source creator:
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Benzoni, Girolamo, b. 1519
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Source Title:
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[Historia del mondo nuovo. Dutch] De gedenkwaardige West-Indise voyagien, gedaan door Christoffel Columbus, Americus Vesputius en Lodewijck Hennepin ....
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Source place of publication:
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Te Leyden [Leiden]
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Source publisher:
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By Pieter van der Aa
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Source date:
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1704
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notes:
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Text describes Hennepin and his men hunting for a bear. They shot it in the water and dragged it with great personal peril to shore to butcher it.The first part of this book is translated from Benzoni, Historia del mondo nuovo, Venice, 1565 (first two voyages). The second part is Louis Hennepin, Nouvelle decouverte, Utrecht, 1697. Image title taken from chapter title.
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Time Period:
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1701-1750
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Provenance/Donor:
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Acquired before 1870.
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Owner and copyright:
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©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
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