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Tasmanian Wombat, Phascolomys Wombat antique print. Lithograph c1896

Tasmanian Wombat, Phascolomys Wombat antique print. Lithograph c1896

by Lydekker, Richard

Antique lithograph of Wombat, furry Australian marsupial c1896. Famous for digging holes and running fast - up to 40 k/hr (nearly 25 miles an hour)!

Colour-printed c1896 by Wyman & Sons Ltd for A Hand-book to the Marsupialia and Monotremata by Richard Lydekker, B.A., F.R.S., Vice-President of the Geological Society, etc., etc., as part of (Edward) Lloyd's Natural History, edited by Richard Bowdler Sharpe, L.L.D., F.L.S., &c.

Wyman & Sons coloured the steel plates engraved and published by William Home Lizars (1788-1859) c1841 for (Sir William) Jardine’s Naturalist’s Library. In the original publication each of the fine steel engraved portraits of marsupials by Lizars was highlighted by hand-colour, against an uncoloured habitat background.

Page size is 120 x 180mm (4 3/4 x 7 inches)

Stock Number: apRLm19Price: $95.00

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