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Monomotapa Mutapa People 1686
Colossus of Rhodes 1686
Egyptian Pyramids 1686
Egyptian Mummies 1686
Christian Slaves 1686
Turkish and Armenian Marriage Rituals 1720
Ottoman Portraits Whirling Dervishers 1720
Five Horse Head Mountains China 1666
10x16 cm
PLES DE MONOMOTAPA
Copper engraving produced by Alain Manneson Mallet for his Description de L'Univers... first published Paris, Denys Thierry, 1683 with re-issues until the early 1700's.
An African kingdom in Zimbabwe which expanded to Mozambique variously referred to as the Mutapa Empire, Mwenemutapa, Mwene (or Munhu) we Mutapa [Shona], and Monomotapa [Portuguese].
From a German issue [c.1686]. Hand coloured.
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