Illustrierte Naturgeschichte der drei Reiche für Schule und Haus
Stuttgart: Gustav Weise, [1895]. Folio, 3 parts in 1, pp. [2], 212; 177, [1]; over 500 color lithograph illustrations of monkeys, lions, bears, whales, mushrooms, fruits, flowers, minerals, etc., on 48 composite plates, 370 text engravings; original pictorial green cloth backed in tan leather, illustrated cover detailed in gilt, gilt-decorated spine, marbled endpapers; light scuffing to spine, else a fine, bright copy. The first section covers zoology, the second botany, and the third minerology (botany and mineralogy are paged together). OCLC indicates the 3 sections were also published separately. Of this collected edition, only 2 copies in Germany are listed in OCLC. Item #58482
Price: $450.00