Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history

Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889, Holder, Joseph B. (Joseph Bassett), 1824-1888, Prang, Louis, 1824-1909, lithographer, Brehm, Alfred Edmund, 1829-1884, Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889. Illustrated natural history, National Zoological Park (U.S.), former owner. DSI · 1898 · New York : Selmar Hess · 15 pictures

Animate Creation is a popular natural history of animals, compiled in 1898 in New York by J. G. Wood, Joseph B. Holder, Louis Prang and Alfred Brehm for general readers. The pictures are black-and-white wood engravings of birds shown perched or in flight, with plants and branches set behind them, useful to a designer wanting clean, detailed animal line work with simple botanical backgrounds.

Zoology

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