Apes 14

Album Title
Bertuch: Bilderbuch fur Kinder

Book
Bilderbuch fur Kinder

Author
Friedrich Justin Bertuch

Dimensions
25 x 21cm

Description

Four species of monkeys including:
1) Toque macaque (Macaca sinica)
2) Tufted capuchin (Cebus apella)
3) Banded langur (Presbytis femoralis)
4) Red-handed tamarin (Saguinus midas)

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: Macaca sinica, Simia trepida (Cebus apella), Simia maura (Presbytis femoralis), Saguinus midas

Name in French: le Bonnet Chinois, le Singe a queue touffue, le Singe negre, le Tamarin

Meaning of flower:

Catalogue Number: BilKin3.14