Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: [Lizards of Guadeloupe]
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Accession number:
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01897
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Record number:
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01897-9
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JCB call number:
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E667 D975h (copy 1)
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Image title:
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[Lizards of Guadeloupe]
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Place image published:
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[Paris]
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Image publisher:
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[Thomas Jolly]
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Image date:
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[1667]
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Image function:
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plate; vol. 2, following p. 308
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Technique:
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engraving
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Image dimension height:
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19.9 cm.
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Image dimension width:
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14.9 cm.
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Page dimension height:
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23.6 cm.
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Page dimension width:
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17.5 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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Languages:
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French
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Description:
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Lizards including an iguana, anoles, ameiva [?], skink, spotted skink, and rocquet [?].
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Source creator:
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Du Tertre, Jean Baptiste, 1610-1687
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Source Title:
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Histoire generale des Antilles habitées par les François ... Tome II
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Source place of publication:
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A Paris
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Source publisher:
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Chez Thomas Iolly, au palais, en la Salle des Merciers, à la Palme, & aux Armes d'Hollande
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Source date:
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M. DC. LXVII. [1667]
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notes:
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The holotropide roquet may be an extinct lizard, known solely from Du Tertre's description of it.
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Time Period:
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1651-1700
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References:
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svr1.cg971.fr/lameca/dossiers/ especes_disparues/pages/leiocephalus_cuneus.htm (Oct. 2006)
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Provenance/Donor:
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Acquired in 1854.
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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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geographic area:
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Caribbean Islands
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Subject Area:
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Flora and fauna
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Subject headings:
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Natural history--Guadeloupe
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