Naturgeschichte der Thiere : mit naturgetreuen Abbildungen in lithographischem Buntdruck : nach den vorzüglichsten Originalen bearbeitet für die reifere Jugend
A German natural history book of animals, compiled by Prof. Reissert and O. Dressler and published in 1850 by H. Müller-Schmid, aimed at older children. Its pages are hand-coloured lithographic plates arranged in grids, each showing a main animal beside smaller studies of the same species. A designer could take the tidy taxonomic layout, the framed plate borders, and the soft naturalistic colour of the mammal groupings, such as the rodents, wild cats, foxes and marsupials shown here.
