Common Three-striped Opossum of South America. Antique Print c1894.

by Lydekker, Richard

Didelphys tristriata, 3-striped Opossum, small animals and habitat.

Colour-printed c1894 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 c1841 by William Home Lizars (1788-1859) 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 approximately 120 x 180mm (4 3/4 x 7 inches) - in good condition.