Tag: Spitsbergen

Plates depicting 17th century animals, all of these having lived on Spitzbergen (Spitsbergen) which is located between Norway and the North Pole. Taken from Friedrich Marten’s 1671 work on the subject which was published in Hamburg in 1675.

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Land mammals. Page 167. Collections of and digitalized by the John Carter Brown Library. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/friderichmartens00mart/page/n167/mode/2up
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Whales. Page 172. Collections of and digitalized by the John Carter Brown Library. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/friderichmartens00mart/page/n172/mode/2up
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BIrds. Page 163. Collections of and digitalized by the John Carter Brown Library. In the public domain. via https://archive.org/details/friderichmartens00mart/page/n163/mode/2up