Marsupials. Pigmy Possum and White Phalangista engraving c1831.

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Zoologia. Mammiferi, Marsupiali. Falangista volante pimmea. Falangista bianco. Flying Phalanger (Glider Possum), and White Phalangista.

Possums, finely engraved by Chiossone after Gabriel Pretre interpretation of the drawing by French naturalist, Pierre Jean François Turpin. Published c1831 for the first Italian edition of a Dictionary of Natural Science).

24 x 15cm (9.5 x 6 inches). To lined border measures 15.5 x 9cm (3.5 x 7.5 inches). Slight soiling around edges of page and spot at lower right.