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Uncolored engraving depicting six medals or seals, with caption text in Latin. Middle right seal depicts a whale with coiling tail opening its mouth at a ship on the sea. Middle left shows a long fish behind a bivalve shell standing on the sea.
Page 114/plate 51 of the book "Symbola varia Diversorum Principum Sacrossane. Ecclesiae Et Sacre Imperij Romani," by Jacobus Typotius (1602). With text in Latin on verso.


whales
1602-01-02
PERMANENT COLLECTION
Hart Nautical
Sadeler, E.
ink; laid paper; mounting
12 1/4 in x 7 1/2 in
Czech Republic: Prague