Collection of 80 miscellaneous prints natural history, caricature and costumes

Var. techniques and sizes. Mostly 19th cent. A nice collection, comprising a.o. a series of 7 handcol. lithogr. plates of var. animals w. human heads, from The comic natural history of the human race, Philadelphia, 1851; a series of handcol. aquatint caricature plates by J.A. Atkinson published in London by William Miller, 1807; and 16 caricature plates by A. Senefelder, Delpech, a.o. after H. Monnier from Jadis et aujourd'hui, Paris, Delpech, 1829, Récréations and other series. -and 8 others: a complete set of 7 contemp. handcol. engr. plates by J. Eissner after G. Lumnitzer, from Naturhistorische Tafeln des Thierreichs nebst systematischem Namensverzeichnisse der darauf enthaltenen Gegenstände (...), Vienna, Müller, 1825, obl. folio, and a very nice obl. folio sized contemp. handcol. engr. showing a mandril, by Miger after Maréchal, from La Ménagerie du Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle ou Description et Histoire des Animaux (...), Paris, 1801 (a bit browned).

(total approx. 90)