ABBILDUNGEN ZU OKEN'S NATURGESCHICHTE

Lithographic title page, 164 lithographic plates of which 133 are delicately hand coloured, half brown leather with gilt titling and decoration on the spine, green cloth covered boards corners worn, green patterned endpapers, some light foxing and browning but generally the plates particularly the colour plates are unaffected, a very good copy.

Most plates have several illustrations on each - mammals, birds (parrots, toucans, birds of paradise), fish, reptiles, insects (butterfly, moth, dragonfly), sea life (jellyfish, coral), manatee, dugong, whale, dolphin etc.

Wood (C.A.) An Introduction to the Literature of Vertebrate Zoology (1931), Nissen ZBI 3006.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenz_Oken) Lorenz Oken (1 August 1779 – 11 August 1851) was a German naturalist, botanist, biologist, and ornithologist. He became a professor of natural history at the University of Jena and from 1833 at the newly founded University of Zurich. Oken produced the seven-volume series Allgemeine Naturgeschichte für alle Stände, with engravings by Johann Susemihl (1767–1847), and published in Stuttgart by Hoffman between 1839 and 1843.