“100 IMPORTANT ITEMS” - Kunstantikvariat Pama AS

36. HEINRICH HEUSS
“Abriss Eines Kopffs von einem Einhorn/ Der dem gemeinen Lauff der
Natur zugegen/ mit zwey Hörner versehen/ und Anno 1684 in Grönland
gefangen worden.”
Typographical print and engraving, the sheet including the text
40x32cm, the engraving 11,5x31cm
HAMBURG 1684
EXTREMELY RARE FLY-LEAF OF WHALING IN THE ARCTIC
SEA.
The picture shows a narwhal caught in Greenland in 1684 and its skull
with double tusks is seen from both sides! Key “D” shows the holes
where the whale spurts out the water. In the middle an unborn narwhal
in original size. The narwhal is a medium-sized toothed whale found
primarily in Canadian Arctic and Greenland waters. Narwhals have been
harvested for thousands of years by Inuit people for meat and ivory and
a regulated subsistence hunt continues to this day. Narwhal tusks were
once commonly belived to be horns from the legendary unicorns.
Folds as issued, in excellent condition.
15 000,-
(€1740)
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