Bidspirit auction | Fitzinger - Turtle or Tortoise

Fitzinger - Turtle or Tortoise - This first edition chromolithograph is from Leopold Joseph Fitzinger's Bilder-Atlas zur wissenschaftlich-popularen Naturgeschichte der Saugethiere . The work was published in Vienna between 1860 and 1864. Fitzinger was an Austrian zoologist whose name is commemorated in the scientific names of five reptiles. Paper Size ~ 9 1/2” by 12 3/4”