Images from De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld (1671), a book by the Dutch explorer, missionary and theologian Arnoldus Montanus (1625–1683). The full title of the work in English is “The New and Unknown World: or Description of America and the Southland, Containing the Origin of the Americans and South-landers, remarkable voyages thither, Quality of the Shores, Islands, Cities, Fortresses, Towns, Temples, Mountains, Sources, Rivers, Houses, the nature of Beasts, Trees, Plants and foreign Crops, Religion and Manners, Miraculous Occurrences, Old and New Wars: Adorned with Illustrations drawn from the life in America, and described by Arnoldus Montanus”.
Images via the excellent and highly recommended Bibliodyssey. The full 800 plus pages of the book in high-res scans are housed here on the website of the Library of Congress project The Atlantic World: America and the Netherlands.
Images via the excellent and highly recommended Bibliodyssey. The full 800 plus pages of the book in high-res scans are housed here on the website of the Library of Congress project The Atlantic World: America and the Netherlands.
Operation Doorstep | The Spirit Photographs of William Hope | The Maps of Piri Reis | Dr Julius Neubronner's Miniature Pigeon Camera |
Art in Art | Huexotzinco Codex | Sessions for the Blind at Sunderland Museum | Eugène von Guérard's Australian Landscapes |
Landscape and Marine Views of Norway | The Mechanism of Human Physiognomy | Space Colony Art from the 1970s | Men in Wigs |
De humana physiognomonia libri IIII (1586) | Field Columbian Museum | Maps from Geographicus | Arnoldus Montanus' New and Unknown World (1671) |
World War II from the Air |