Historia naturalis Ranarum nostratium / Die naturliche Historie der Froesche hiesigen Landes how material culture widens access

how material culture widens access to new food sources and how youngsters learn culture

1834 plate number 28

Nine of the mats contain an impression from the original wood block

This is the very rare privately printed first edition that was limited to 50 copies only

folding color map as frontispiece

Historia naturalis Ranarum nostratium / Die naturliche Historie der Froesche hiesigen Landes how material culture widens accessPp. (10), viii, 116, 48 engraved plates (24 are hand colored each with a matching uncolored key plate), 1 hand colored frontispiece, engraved title page, 8 engraved headpieces in the text. Contemporary mottled calf, probably German, spine with 7 raised bands, gilt lettered on red morocco label in one compartment and with a repeating emblematic gilt scene showing St. Francis in the other 7 compartments, folio (17. 5 x 12 inches), in black cloth covered