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| 1165 |  | Details | Wilhelm, Gottlieb Tobias | 1804 |
| Group of antique engravings related to slavery. |
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Wilhelm, Gottlieb Tobias |
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| 1804 |
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| $250.00 | Wilhelm--Gottlieb-Tobias | Group-of-antique-engravings-related-to-slavery- | A group of three pages containing five hand-colored copper-plate engravings of scenes related to African slaving and slavery.
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<li>Three general-arrangement plans define the three-dimensional distribution of slaves packed in the hold of a slave ship; and vignette of a woman slave in chains working on a coffee plantation with her small children, while behind her another slave is whipped while tied horizontally to a grating. </li>
<li>Two scenes illustrating that Africans were not only slaves but were often complicit in conducting slave raids against other tribes. Black men are shown carrying rifles and assisting in the restraint of naked captives.</li>
<li>Scene showing armed and uniformed Caucasian men rounding up a fugitive slave.</li>
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From G. T. Wilhelm's Encyclopedia of Natural History: Mankind. Augsburg, 1804. Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm (1758-1811) was a Bavarian clergyman and naturalist known as the German Buffon. |
| 1182 |  | Details | Wilhelm, Gottlieb Tobias | 1808 |
| Antique engravings of whaling and walrus hunting. |
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Wilhelm, Gottlieb Tobias |
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| 1808 |
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| $150.00 | Wilhelm--Gottlieb-Tobias | Antique-engravings-of-whaling-and-walrus-hunting- | A group of two antique copper-plate engraved pages containing scenes that show how mariners have exploited the aquatic environment for food or for the acquisition of wealth.
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The upper print depicts a shore-based whale butchery and oil rendering location. In the foreground workers strip blubber from the dead whale lying in the shallows; a large fire burns nearby where the blubber would be boiled down to oil. Workers tend the fire and fill numerous wooden barrels with the whale oil, and at the end of the scene horse and wagon are shown to suggest the transfer of the oil barrels to another location.
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The lower plate depicts a ships crew in a small rowboat firing upon a herd of walrus. While some of the crew fires their long guns other crew members use their oars to maintain the boats position and steady the rocking boat.
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From G. T. Wilhelm's Encyclopedia of Natural History: Mankind. Augsburg, 1804. Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm (1758-1811) was a Bavarian clergyman and naturalist known as the German Buffon |
| 1183 |  | Details | Wilhelm, Gottlieb Tobias | 1808 |
| Antique copper-plate engravings of whales |
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Wilhelm, Gottlieb Tobias |
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| 1808 |
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| $150.00 | Wilhelm--Gottlieb-Tobias | Antique-copper-plate-engravings-of-whales | A group of two antique copper-plate engraved pages containing charming depictions of several species of whales. These species are noted in manuscript on the page near each whale.
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From G. T. Wilhelm's Encyclopedia of Natural History: Mankind. Augsburg, 1804. Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm (1758-1811) was a Bavarian clergyman and naturalist known as the German Buffon |