Toque macaque, Macaca sinica endangered 1, tufted capuchin, Cebus apella trepida 2 threatened, negro langur, Trachypithecus obscurus maurus, threatened 3, and red-handed tamarin, Saguinus midas, threatened 4. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1798. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts most famous for his 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830.

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