Goldsmith, Oliver Pl. LIII. [Black Howler & Ursine Howler Monkeys]

Pl. LIII. [Black Howler & Ursine Howler Monkeys] From Oliver Goldsmith’s A History of The Earth and Animated Nature. 

London & Edinburgh: A. Fullarton & Co., 1856.  Octavo.  Lithograph.  Original hand coloring.  Scattered light spots. Else, fine condition.

A charming natural history print from Goldsmith’s mid-nineteenth century natural history.  The bright hand coloring gives a liveliness to the nicely drawn birds and animals in the series, evidence that the 1800’s in England were really the years of great natural history illustration.