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![[picture: Front cover, Description of the New World]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Montanus-America/tn/00010000-front-cover-q75-339x500.jpg "[picture: Front cover, Description of the New World]")
Some images from De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld: of beschryving van AMERICA en ’t ZUID-LAND, with text and engravings/woodcuts by Arnoldus Montanus, Amsterdam, 1671.
These engravings are from a book at the Library of Congress; I found the images (which are out of copyright) here: lcweb2.loc.gov/rbc/rbkb/0003/ – beware that the files there are 24 MBytes each, there’s some 18 Gigabytes of them, and most do not have illustrations. I have kept the same filenames, so you can download the originals if you want, from the Library of Congress. I have processed the images, cleaning them up as if they were scans (they are actually photographs, and lower resolution than I normally prefer), and am converting most of them to greyscale.
Title: The New World
City: Amsterdam
Date: 1671
Total items: 11
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: Christofel Cololus [Christopher Columbus]]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Montanus-America/wm/big/00610000-Christofel-Colonus-q75-121x200.jpg "[picture: Christofel Cololus [Christopher Columbus]]")
Christofel Cololus [Christopher Columbus]
Christopher Columbus, of Christofer, or Christofel Colonus as written here, was responsible for bringing many diseases to Turtle Island, including Catholicism and rampant individualism, corporate greed and measles, in a selfish pursuit of personal riches and fame He is famous in some parts of the world for “discovering” America, although since it was already inhabited it would be fairer to say that he was the first from [more...] [$]
![[picture: Vitzlipuztli, God of the Mexicans]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Montanus-America/wm/big/03000000-worship-the-god-q67-246x200.jpg "[picture: Vitzlipuztli, God of the Mexicans]")
Vitzlipuztli, God of the Mexicans
The image is captioned, in Latin, Viztlipuztli idolum Mexicanorum, which is, Viztlipuztli, idol of the Mexicans. The usual modern spelling appears to be Vitzlipuztli; he/it was worhipped as a god or war and conquest. The description of Vitzlipuztli differs from that of Hiotzilopochtli, but [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: Initial letter D from first page of text]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Montanus-America/wm/big/00190001-detail-initial-letter-d-q90-198x200.jpg "[picture: Initial letter D from first page of text]")
Initial letter D from first page of text
Capital D, a decorative initial “D” used as a drop cap for the first paragraph of the text. [$]
![[picture: First Nations Chocolatiers]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Montanus-America/wm/big/00300012-making-chocolate-q75-267x200.jpg "[picture: First Nations Chocolatiers]")
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![[picture: Map of the Americas]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Montanus-America/wm/big/00180000-totius-americas-q75-267x200.jpg "[picture: Map of the Americas]")
