Brehm's Life of Animals
Chicago: A. N. Marquis & Company, 1896.
Quarto. [Approx. 600 pp.] Publisher's black cloth, elaborately stamped in gilt. Heavy fraying and cloth loss to head and tail of spine. Heavy wear to corners. Bright gold-stamping on front board. Patterned endpapers. Frontispiece with tissue guard. Pages toned; occasional light smudging to preliminary leaves. Binding secure but showing expected shelfwear for a large quarto of this age.
Late-Victorian translation of Alfred Brehm’s zoological tome. This volume, dedicated to Mammalia, features hundreds of detailed wood engravings by the leading natural history illustrators of the 19th-century German school. Brehm's work was celebrated for its biographies of animals, moving beyond taxonomy to describe behavior and habitat in a narrative style that captivated the 19th-century public. K2.
Price: $120.00