1836 Antique Original Cicada Beetle Engraving Le Règne Animal Paris Hymenoptera Fly Wasp Ant hotsell Bee Insect Anatomy Plate 95 CUVIER

1836 Antique Original Engraving Le Règne Animal Paris Hymenoptera Fly Wasp Ant Bee Insect Anatomy Plate 129 1836 CUVIER hand colored Animal Kingdom

VERY RARE & Absolutely Spectacular

Copper engraving with original period hand-coloring as issued

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True Antique over 170 years old!

ORIGINAL engraved plate from Le Règne Animal by Baron Cuvier - Georges Cuvier Paris edition 1836

Le Règne Animal (The Animal Kingdom) is the most famous work of the French naturalist Georges Cuvier. It sets out to describe the natural structure of the whole of the animal kingdom based on comparative anatomy, and its natural history.

Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric Cuvier (French: August 23, 1769 – May 13, 1832), known as Georges Cuvier, was hotsell a Frenchnaturalist and zoologist. Cuvier was a major figure in natural sciences research in the early nineteenth century and was instrumental in establishing the fields of comparative anatomy and paleontology through his work in comparing living animals with fossils.

For more about Baron Cuvier see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Règne_Animal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Cuvier

size - approximately 10.5 x 7 Inch

Very good condition with some age marks

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