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Apes playing with a goldsmith's apparatus. Engraving by Nicolaes de Bruyn, ca 1621.
Wellcome Collection

Apes playing with a goldsmith's apparatus. Engraving by Nicolaes de Bruyn, ca 1621.

1621

CC0 — Public Domain
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Lettering: Animalium quadrupedum varij generis effigies in tyronum, præcipuè tamen aurifabrorum gratiam, tabellis aeneis incisa per Nicolaum de Bruin ... Allerley vierfuessiger Thier eigentliche Abbildung, den Goltschmiden dienlich

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