Caption
Woodblock illustration of Camels from Ortus (Hortus) Sanitatis 1491 - translated from the latin as 'Garden of Health'. This is the first printed illustration of a camel in literature. The Hortus was the first printed natural history encyclopaedia and was published by Jacob Meydenbach in Mainz, Germany in 1491 describing plants and animals (both real and mythical) together with minerals and medicine.
Availability
Only inBelgium, Canada, France, Luxembourg, Switzerland