Cannibal Island Pacific Exploration Flora Fauna Landscape 1673 old antique print Cinglais Forest French text on reverse

French text on reverse

Frontis portraits in each vol

" and "The Three Chief Contestants for the Goelet Cup for Schooners" and a very nice double page centerfold which includes five prints of: "Moosehead Lake

still with pleasing age patina

moderate to heavy old staining and scattered age spotting

Cannibal Island Pacific Exploration Flora Fauna Landscape 1673 old antique print Cinglais Forest French text on reverseDie Inselnder Kanibalen. (Old Prints, 17th Century Prints, Engraved Prints, Pacific Exploration, Fiji, Cannibal Islands, Flora, Fauna, Landscape View) Issued Amsterdam, 1673. Charming late 17th century engraved print. The image has a near folk art feel, a style of image quite unique to this time in history. Utterly unlike anything produced today and of modern aesthetic appeal for this very reason. Mostly clean & well preserved example, trivial blank