Development of oviparous birds and animals. A young chicken growing in the egg 1-6, a pigeon chick at 15 days 7, and birth of a worm lizard or amphisbaenia from an egg 8-10. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Carl Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1815. A 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with almost 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830.

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