Oblong quarto. (9)ff. Eight colored plates show animals performing circus tricks: nattily dressed chimps accompany dancing dogs on string instruments; a bear, a lamb, and a pig balance atop a barrel; a militarily-inclined ape threatens a castle façade. Each is set into motion by means of a pull tab at the fore-edge. Facing each plate is a page of text explicating the scene. This is the French edition of Lebendes Affentheater. Bound in pictorial boards backed in red cloth. General exterior rubbing and some internal toning, few metal pivots renewed, one image showing a monkey wielding a staff lacking top half of staff. Overall, very good and quite rare, with only a single auction record and no copies listed in OCLC. (See Wegehaupt IV, 1426).