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The Two-Toed Sloth Family antique print. Smit c1894.

The Two-Toed Sloth Family antique print. Smit c1894.

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by Rev. Pierre-Jacques Smit

Antique print of Sloths chromolithograph by P.J. Smit.

Original colour-printed lithograph for The Royal Natural History, this wonderful lithograph was initially published for Brehm's Illustrirtes Tierleben (Illustrations of Animal Life), by German zoologist, writer and director of Zoological gardens, Alfred Edmund Brehm (1829-1884). First published in Leipzig, Germany between 1864 and 1869, Brehm's Tierleben was republished in Austria between 1894-1896, and was published in London, also between 1894 and 1896, as The Royal Natural History.

Image size is 20 x 13cm (8 x 12 inches). The page size is slightly larger than the first edition, 10 1/8 x 6 5/8 inches (approximately 26 x 17cm). 

Stock Number: apRNHttsPrice: $95.00