Apes 8

Album Title
Bertuch: Bilderbuch fur Kinder

Book
Bilderbuch fur Kinder

Author
Friedrich Justin Bertuch

Dimensions
25 x 21cm

Description

Five species of monkeys:
Liontail macaque
Greater spot-nosed monkey
Red-shanked Douc (Pygathrix nemaeus)
Pale-headed Saki (Pithecia pithecia)
Roloway monkey

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: monkeys

Name in Latin: Simia silenus, Cercopithecus nictitans, Pygathrix memaeus, Pithecia pithecia, Cercopithecus roloway

Name in French: Ouanderou, Singe a bouche blanche, Duc, Saki, Roloway

Meaning of flower:

Catalogue Number: BilKin3.8