Author: HAYEK, G. VON (EDITOR)
Title: Grosser Handatlas der Naturgeschichte aller Drei Reiche.
Description: Wien-Leipzig, Moritz Perles, 1885. 2°. Original clothcovered heavy boards. Coloured lithographed and illustrated front cover, silk covered f.e.p. [2] (Introduction), 84pp. of text printed in double collumns, extensive descriptions to plates, register of illustrations in all three sections. Numerous coloured lithographed illustrations on 61 plates, printed on stiff leaves, captioned in latin and german, lithographed by Czeiger German language Atlas illustrating and describing most known domestic and exotic species found in the Natural Kingdom, with numerous coloured lithographed illustrations depicting Fauna and Flora, incl. Fungi. Contents, incl. illustrations in clean condition. (copy skilfully rebound, original front fover preserved, spine and lower outer boards replaced with use of matching material, a few plates with some wear to front edge, NOT touching illustrated areas).

Keywords: zoology mammals genera species entomology botany fungi flora fauna biology atlas lithography exotic germany nineteenthcentury naturalhistory classification animalkingdom education information snakes