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Frontispiece depicting European contact with Indian diamond miners from Travernier's Les six voyages de Jean Baptiste Tavernier

Finnin, Denis

American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History
New York, NY, United States

  • Title: Frontispiece depicting European contact with Indian diamond miners from Travernier's Les six voyages de Jean Baptiste Tavernier
  • Creator: Finnin, Denis
  • Subject: Rare books, Asia, Clothing and dress, Gems, Cultural anthropology, Ethnography, Trees, Mammals
  • Specimen Location: American Museum of Natural History Library Rare Book Collection
  • Rights: Information on rights available at the repository
  • Repository: American Museum of Natural History
  • Publisher: American Museum of Natural History Research Library
  • Note: Natural Histories: Extraordinary Rare Book Selections from the American Museum of Natural History Library
  • Medium: Woodblock prints
  • Imprint: Amsterdam : Chez Johannes van Someren, 1678
  • Identifier: b10761068_2
  • Description of Publication: 2 v. : ill. (folded) ; 25 cm.
  • Department / Discipline: Anthropology
  • Date of Publication: 1678
  • Date: 2011
  • Cultural Context: East Indians
  • Coverage: East Indies, Iran, Turkey, India
  • Collection Title: Rare Book Collection
  • Collection Name: Rare Book Collection
  • Collection Description: The images of the Rare Book Collection highlight some of the art, illustrations, engravings, maps, and sketches from the over 14,000 rare materials housed at the Library. The Museum Library’s Rare Book Collection includes field diaries and scrapbooks, richly illustrated fragile and uniquely bound materials, limited and/or autographed editions; published and unpublished materials with special Museum association; materials of high monetary value; and rare books relevant to natural history, especially in those fields of interest at the Museum. This image collection commences with all of the artwork showcased in Natural Histories: Extraordinary Rare Book Selections from the American Museum of Natural History Library: Essays & Plates, a book edited by the Library’s Director, published in October, 2012.
  • Call Number: D-1
  • Book Title: Les six voyages de Jean Baptiste Tavernier ... :en Turquie, en Perse, et aux Indes, pendant l'espace de quarante ans ... accompagnez d'observations particulieres sur la qualité, la religion, le gouvernement, les coûtumes & le commerce de chaque païs, avec les figures, le poids, & la valeur des monnoyes qui y ont cours : suivant la copie imprimée a Paris
  • Bibliographic Number: <a href="http://libcat1.amnh.org/record=b1076106" target="_blank">b10761068</a>
  • Author: Tavernier, Jean-Baptiste, 1605-1689
  • Artist: Unknown
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