Verisimilitude

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• 'Recueil de la Diversité des Habits, Qui Sont de Present en Usage, tant es Pays d’Europe, Asie, Affrique & Isles Sauvages, le Tout Fait Apres le Naturel' by François Desprez 1564 at Les Bibliothèques Virtuelles Humanistes [2nd link].
  
• Peter Platt's review of Mary Blaine Campbell's 1999 'Wonder and Science: Imagining Worlds in Early Modern Europe' from The Bryn Mawr Review of Comparative Literature 2001.
• Previous ethnology.

[Incidentally, an engraving by Desprez is the first known depiction of the double bass.]