GEORG GOLDFUSS HAND COLORED PARTRIDGE

Antique Georg Goldfuss Lithograph, hand colored, Perdix Francolinus Lath & Perdix Borealis Tem. (Partridge). Taken from the famous work "Goldfuss' Naturhistorischer Atlas" published in Düsseldorf from 1824 to 1842. The quality of the hand colouring is of the very best. Goldfuss, A prolific author, he published numerous books and articles on zoology, and identified new species such as the koala and the Cervidae (deer). Goldfuss is renowned for his major study of invertebrate fossils found in Germany, Petrefacta Germaniae (1826-1844), which remained unfinished at his death, and for Naturhistorischer Atlas Naturalist Atlas (Dusseldorf: 1824-43), a comprehensive illustrated study of animals. These bird engravings are extremely rare. Measures 32"x25"x1 1/2". Weight 12 pds. PROVENANCE: Gippy Plantation, Berkeley County.