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Image: Het Tweede Boeck

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Description: Copper engraving (made in the Netherlands) showing Dutch activities on the shore of Mauritius, as well as the first published depiction of a dodo bird (Raphus cucullatus), on the left. The now extinct tortoise Cylindraspis and an unidentified Pteropus (bat) are shown as well.
Title: Het Tweede Boeck
Credit: Het Tweede Boeck, scan from http://julianhume.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/History-of-the-dodo-Hume.pdf
Author: Johann Theodor de Bry
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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