[PLATYPUS; KANGAROO] Lehrbuch der Naturgeschichte für Schulen und zum Selbstunterricht.

Erlangen : Carl Heyder, [1846]. Octavo, contemporary half pebbled cloth over marbled papered boards (rubbed), spine with gilt lettering and ornament, marbled edges, title page with old blank slip label, pp 459, [4], illustrated with 12 hand-coloured engraved plates including small depictions of the platypus (plate X) and kangaroo (plate XI); scattered foxing and browning, a sound copy.

The fifteenth edition of this popular German introduction to natural history “for schools and self-study”.