1673 · City Views & Plans
Historic View of Sugar Milling in 17th Century America, published in 1673
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- Date
- 1673
- Maker
- Montanus & Ogilby
- Kind
- City Views & Plans
- Size
- 31 × 19.5 cm (12.2 × 7.7 in)
- Condition
- Good. Given age. Some foxing and some staining in margins. A few wormholes in the text, but not in the image. General age related toning and small imperfections. Please study scans carefully.
- Period
- Colonial America
- Reference
- BG-13596-13
What the condition grades mean
- Excellent
- Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
- Very good
- Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
- Good
- Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
- Fair
- Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.
Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.
Guaranteed original. This is an original of the period stated, not a later reproduction or print-on-demand copy. If it is ever shown to be otherwise, we refund you in full.
Shipping to the United States. Sent from our gallery in Langweer, the Netherlands, flat between boards or rolled in a tube, and fully insured.
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About this piece
Amerikens Entdecker, a page from the German edition of Arnoldus Montanus's Die Unbekante Neue Welt, published in Amsterdam by Jacob van Meurs in 1673. The sheet is a text leaf with a copper engraving at the top, under the running head "Amerikens Entdecker" and the page number 77. The leaf measures 31 by 19.5 centimeters and the engraving about 17 by 13.
The picture shows laborers working a large mill. A wooden frame carries a great wheel and axle, and a man at the right strains against the wheel to turn it while others work at the machinery at the left, with more figures grouped behind. Fruiting trees frame the picture on both sides, one with large hanging fruit at the upper left, and a hilltop settlement sits in the distance.
The German text below, set in three columns with marginal notes, concerns the preparation of food from the root of the mandioca (cassava) plant, with notes on how it was ground, pressed and baked. It runs on into an account of the Spanish explorer Arias.