Price: $65.00
SKU: 60777
PUBLISHER: Published by Landes-Industrie-Comptoirs, Weimar.
MEDIUM: Etching; hand colored,
DATE: 1792-1810.
EDITION SIZE: Image size 6 3/4 x 5 3/8" (173 x 136 mm).
DESCRIPTION: Natural history print showing a lion ant (ant lion) creating a funnel shaped trap in sand and capturing its prey. From F. J. Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder." An elaborate pictorial encyclopedia, Bertuch's work was designed to teach children about the physical world -- its geography, natural phenomena, flora and fauna, as well as its peoples and their mores at work and leisure. <br><br>Included is a page of pertinent text in English on one side and Italian on the other.
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CONDITION: Good condition.
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