Antique Map-INSECT-WORLD-SPREAD-Brehm-1892

Price: € 32,50

Subject: Plate: 'Verbreitung wichtiger u. charakteristischer Insekten u. Spinnentiere (Spreading of important and characteristic insects and spiders).'
Condition: Very good. Original horizontal middle fold from binding. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
Medium: Original colour chromo-lithographs on a vellin type paper.
Size (in cm): The overall size is ca. 32.6 x 24.9 cm. The image size is ca. 30.7 x 21.3 cm.
Size (in inch): The overall size is ca. 6.7 x 9.8 inch. The image size is ca. 12.2 x 8.9 inch.
Part Number: 11921
Location: C109-28
Description: This attractive original old antique print / plate originates from: 'Brehms Tierleben' (English title: Brehm's Life of Animals) is a reference book, first published in the 1864, which made its author, Alfred Edmund Brehm, known around the world. This plate is from a 1892 or 1900 edition.

Artists and Engravers: The author Alfred Edmund Brehm (1829-1884), was a German zoologist, natural history illustrator and writer, the son of Christian Ludwig Brehm. Through the book titled 'Brehms Tierleben', his name became a synonym for popular zoological literature.