The  Old  Germans

(Divine Service, The Old Germans’ Sacrifices and.) On the right a priest at the sacrificial fire below a wrethed tree, to the center a bull is just lead. On the left sacrificial bowl and knife and the faithful. Engraving at Matthäus Merian. (1638.) 13.8 x 17.8 cm.

Earliest print. – Trimmed on the image margin below, on the right folded in the platemark and partly broken, but lined with acid-free tape as a tear in the wide upper margin.
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