English: "Balenes". Engraving of a scene with a whale on shore with genital Physeter macrocephalus and other caught fish (sawfish, Pristidae) on the coast. Page 99. Unidentified fish in the foreground. Smoke from a chminey in a house and from a kettle hung from a high pole. People walking on the whale. Ship. Sea. Mountains.
Johan Nieuhof (1618-1672); Jean-Baptiste Le Carpentier (1606-ca. 1670): Description générale de l'empire de la Chine... PART 2 of: L'ambassade de la Compagnie Orientale des Provinces Unies vers l'Empereur de la Chine, ou Grand Cam de Tartarie, faite par les Srs. Pierre de Goyer, et Jacob de Keyser, illustrée d'une tres-exacte description ... de la Chine: enrichie d'un grand nombre de tailles douces / Le tout recueilli par le Mr. Jean Nieuhoff, ... ; mis en françois, orné, et assorti de mille belles particularitez ... par Jean le Carpentier, historiographe. Publisher: A Leyde : pour Jacob de Meurs, marchand libraire et graveur de la ville d'Amsterdam
Printer: Meurs, Jacob van Amsterdam, 1651-1680
This is a photograph taken of an image originating from an antiquarian book that is part of the Peace Palace Library collection in the Netherlands. The image has been digitized by Bert Mellink and Lilian Mellink-Dikker from the partnership "D-Vorm VOF". Credits are appreciated.
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