"Science or Art? Beautiful Illustrations of Animals ..." Topic

…From 170 Years ago.

"Published in 1844, the Atlas de Zoologie: ou collection de 100 planches contains illustrations of a number of creatures, some of which no longer walk this planet. Among those are thylacines — striped, carnivorous marsupials that went extinct when the last known specimen died in a Tasmanian zoo in 1936.

There's also a glorious dodo bird, though it's not immediately clear why, since these birds died out at least a century before the book's publication.

Various artists produced the illustrations for this volume, which supplements a 60-part series describing a multitude of Earth's inhabitants. Some of the critters are easily recognizable; others, not so much. For example, is that really a koala? The plates span the kingdoms of life on earth and include everything from aquatic corals to a freaky fish to an Old World monkey…"
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Hope you enjoy!.

Amicalement
Armand

Dear Armand

This is one of the reasons I always check out the "other paper" dumpster at our town recycling center. People throw books away there. I got the complete John James Audobon prints there, perfect condition, early 20th century edition. I didn't keep them or sell them, I gave them to a library who was delighted to get them.

Flea-Market's Garage sales, library book sales, and church auctions are always fertile places to find great stuff.

Lucky you my friend!.
We have not garage sales here. Sad.
But you can found quite interesting books in old stores.

Amicalement
Armand

Someone threw out Audobon prints????

Were they insane?

JohnG

See it all the time on Antiques Roadshow. People dumpster dive and find Picasso sketches, paintings by famous artists, other rare stuff worth big bucks….