Apes 6

Album Title
Bertuch: Bilderbuch fur Kinder

Book
Bilderbuch fur Kinder

Author
Friedrich Justin Bertuch

Dimensions
25 x 21cm

Description

Four species of monkeys:
1) Simia mormon
2) Hamadryas baboon (Simia hamadryas)
3) Barbary macaque (Simia sylvanus)
4) Southern pig-tailed macaque (Simia nemestrino)

Most of the monkey illustrations were copied from Schreber's Die Saugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen (1775) drawn by Ihle, de Seve, Karell, Edwards, and others.

Flower type: monkey

Name in Latin: Simia mormon, Papio hamadryas, Macaca sylvanus, Macaca nemestrina

Name in French: Choras, Lovando, Pitheque, Maimon

Meaning of flower:

Catalogue Number: BilKin3.6