Date of Printing: 1863 • Medium: Lithograph (hand colored) • Subject Category: Natural History - Mammals • Signed: Plate signed, Lower Left • Period Created: Antiquity ( - 299) • Plate Size HxWxD cm: 26 x 38 • Leaf Paper Size HxW cm: 26 x 38 • Style: FOLIO Original Vintage • Print on Verso: Blank on verso • Condition: Excellent, with minor toning at edges • Edition Type: 1st Edition - Limited • Paper Type: Woven • Framed: Print only
From "Atlante zoologico popolare. Opera compilata sui più recenti lavori di zoologia italiani e stranieri. Volume I (-VIII)."
Napoli: presso Raimondo Petrajola, 1863. Lithograph made by Raimondo Petraroja.
Hand-coloured lithographic plate, publisher's blindstamp at foot of plate. Comes also with its additional associated text page. EXTREMELY RARE: not recorded in any of the standard bibliographies, not in BMNH. One copy recorded in Worldcat (Univeristy of California) and two copies in Italian libraries (Florence and Naples). This print has also been featured at Christies Auction in London.
Condition: Excellent, with minor toning at edges. Please see photo