New house built on the Bocken massif near the Ilsestein granite outcrop, Harz mountains, Germany. Nouvelle maison sur le Brocken. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Carl Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1813. A 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with almost 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830.

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