Lion-tailed macaque, Macaca silenus endangered 1, greater spot-nosed monkey, Cercopithecus nictitans 2, red-shanked douc, Pygathrix nemaeus endangered 3, white-faced saki, Pithecia pithecia 4, and roloway monkey, Cercopithecus roloway endangered 5. 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., publishe


Lion-tailed macaque, Macaca silenus endangered 1, greater spot-nosed monkey, Cercopithecus nictitans 2, red-shanked douc, Pygathrix nemaeus endangered 3, white-faced saki, Pithecia pithecia 4, and roloway monkey, Cercopithecus roloway endangered 5. 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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