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Lustige Naturgeschichte oder Zoologia comica : das ist eine genaue Beschreibung aller in diesem Buche vorkommenden lebendigen Thiere der Welt mit 86 naturgetreuen Abbildungen

Bonn, Franz · 1877 · Braun & Schneider · 3 pictures

A comic natural history of animals written in German by Franz Bonn and published in Munich by Braun & Schneider in 1877, offering a humorous treatment of living creatures with 86 illustrations. The pictures are pen-and-ink caricatures with spiky ornamental lettering on the title page, and the interior page shows a mouse drawn as a giant beside an elephant, plus two bookworms gnawing at volumes, which a designer might take as a model for witty anthropomorphic animal drawing and for combining decorative type with engraved-style figures.

Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz · No known copyright restrictions · More from this library