American wolverine, Gulo gulo luscus 1, and striped skunk, Mephitis mephitis 2. (Ursus luscus and Viverra mephitis) Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Carl Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1810. 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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