More often than not, when searching for a particular item on the shelf or section of text within a b
More often than not, when searching for a particular item on the shelf or section of text within a book - in this case, mention of Johannes Gutenberg in Sebastian Munster’s Cosmographia (Basel, 1572 edition) - you stumble upon something unexpected or interesting or both, such as this rather charming woodcut of a slightly nervous looking groundhog.Sebastian Munster, Cosmographia universalis. Basel: Henricus Petrus, 1572, Alexander Turnbull Library, qRSwiss MUNS Cosm 1572. -- source link
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