SET OF THREE ILLUMINATED ENGRAVINGS BELONGING TO THE BOOK "BREHMS TIERLEBEN" (S. XIX) Hand-illuminated engravings showing different types of birds framed in a geometric border. Two illustrations designed and signed in plate by Robert Kretschmer (1812-1872), German illustrator for the first edition in 1864 and 1869. One illustration designed and signed in plate by the German Gustav Ludwig Heinrich Mützel (1839-1893), for the second edition published between 1876 and 1976. Framed in black wood with methacrylate. Measurements with frame: 53 x43 cm.

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