Naturgeschichte und Abbildungen der Saugetiere. Nach den neuesten Systemen zum gemeinnutzigen Gebrauche entworfen, und mit Berucksichtigung fur den Unterricht der Jugend bearbeitet. [Lithographic title:] Naturhistorische Abbildungen der Saeugethiere. BRODTMANN, Carl Joseph (1787-1862); SCHINZ, Heinrich Rudolf (1777-1861).

Folio. VI, 417, [1], [8] pp. With 177 lithographic plates (including the half-title); foxed throughout, short tear on title mended on verso. Modern half tan morocco, marbled boards, gilt-stamped spine, by Ernst Hopli Buchbinderei Zurich. 177 LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES OF MAMMALS. First edition, this book featuring descriptions and beautiful plates celebrating the animal kingdom, being the natural history of mammals. Often bound separately, in this case the text and the plates are bound together. Copies were issued with hand-coloring. This is one of the uncolored examples. / Complete copy of the richly illustrated natural history of mammals including humans. The beautiful plates depict species from all over the world, including Russia, North America, Africa, etc. All the mammals are beautifully drawn and printed in fine lithography, showing monkeys, bats, rodents, armadillos, platypuses, rhinoceros, gazelles, antelopes, dolphins and whales, dogs (St. Bernard, Newfoundland hound), horses (Arabian, Persian (pl. 132), Turkish, Tartar, Spanish, English, a fallen French soldier with his sympathetic horse (pl. 145), big cats (pl. 85 with a man enjoying the company of his 3 tamed big cats; lions, tigers, leopard), zebras, kangaroos of different types, elephants, Hippos, Rhinoceros, and much more, some with fossils. The plates are all named in German, French and Latin. / Karl Joseph/Ioseph Brodtmann was a Swiss-German artist and lithographer, as well as a printmaker, publisher and bookseller. He worked in Zurich and Schaffhausen. Brodtmann's natural history lithographs, besides this one, include Heinrich Rudolf Schinz's works on reptiles and birds, published in the early 1830s. / Heinrich Rudolf Schinz (1777-1861) born in Zurich, studied medicine at Wurzburg and took his medical degree at Zurich (1798), studied zoology, taught natural history at the University of Zurich, serving conjointly as secretary and curator for the Zurich natural history society. REFERENCES: Harvard Countway Library; Nissen ZBI 3672. See: Ruh, Max, Carl Joseph Brodtmann, Schaffhauser Beitrage zur Geschichte, v. 81, 2007. EXTRA POSTAGE WILL APPLY.