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Lothar Meggendorfer

Scenes of Animal Life, (c. 1900)
(Germany)
First edition in English.
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Quarto. (8)ff. The English language edition of Bilder Aus Dem Tierleben contains six slatted changeable chromolithographs that set animals into action in scenes often escaping the human observer. The exception,...
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Quarto. (8)ff. The English language edition of Bilder Aus Dem Tierleben contains six slatted changeable chromolithographs that set animals into action in scenes often escaping the human observer. The exception, perhaps, is the stork who plucks a baby from a pond. Facing each image is a three-stanza poem serving as a comedic description. All mechanisms operational. Modest edgewear, some rubbing to upper cover; overall very good or better. 
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