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Title: Title page from Joannes Jonstonus' Histoirae naturalis de quadrupetibus
Creator: Merian, Matthaeus, 1593-1650
Date Created and/or Issued: 1650
Publication Information: University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution: University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection: Rare Books and Manuscripts Collection
Rights Information: Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
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Description: Engraved title page from Joannes Jonstonus' Histoirae naturalis de quadrupetibus, published in Frankfurt am Main by the Heirs of Matthaeus Merian in 1650. Depicts two centaurs standing in an archway, and holding a lion's skin on which the title is printed. In the background an elephant, lion and ostrich can be seen.
Type: image
Format: 1 plate, in book
art
Identifier: rbm-m54
rbm-jonstonus-historiae-fron
http://doi.org/10.25549/rbm-m54
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/rbm-jonstonus-historiae-fron.jpg
Language: Latin
Subject: Title pages
Centaurs
Lions
Source: QL673.J66 1650 [Call Number]
University of Southern California [Contributing entity]
Relation: Jonstonus, Joannes. Historiae naturalis de quadrupetibus. Frankfurt am Main : impensis Haeredum Math. Meriani, 1650
Rare Books and Manuscripts Collection
Science
rbm-m36

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