South African springhare, Pedetes capensis 1, Middle East blind mole-rat, Nannospalax ehrenbergi 2, and Cape dune mole-rat, Bathyergus suillus 3. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Eugene Giraud after an illustration by Felix-Edouard Guérin-Méneville and Édouard Traviès from Guérin-Méneville’s Iconographie du règne animal de George Cuvier, Iconography of the Animal Kingdom by George Cuvier, J. B. Bailliere, Paris, 1829-1844.

---

Size: 4472px × 7166px
Photo credit: © Florilegius / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: ., 1844, 19th, african, animal, bailliere, bathiergus, bathyergus, blesmol, blind, caffer, cape, capensis, century, copperplate, cuvier, de, du, dune, east, ehrenbergi, engraving, eugene, felix-edouard, george, giraud, guérin-éneville, handcoloured, helamys, history, iconographie, iconography, illustration, kingdom, mammal, mammalia, maritimus, middle, mole-rat, nannospalax, natural, palestine, paris, pedetes, quadruped, science, south, spalax, springhare, stipple, suillus, traviè, typhlus, zoological, zoology, Édouard, ègne