{"product_id":"nikolaus-michael-oppels-drawings-watercolors-roger-bour-9780578293998","title":"Nikolaus Michael Oppel's Drawings, Watercolors, and Engravings 3. Crocodiles (1807-1817): comparative study of some historical and recent crocodile il","description":"\u003cp\u003eNicholas Michael Oppel was a systematist, with a special interest in Reptiles, and an artist, as draftsman, painter, and engraver-the latter talent having led to his death. But unfortunately he had no possibility to make full use of his gifts. His taxonomic work in Munich was thwarted because of his rivalry with Johann Baptist Spix, and his \"war chest\", nearly 400 plates drawn and painted during his stay in Paris, remained unpublished due to lack of funds. During the last ten years of his short life Oppel had by necessity an \"ordinary\" life without brilliance, giving lessons and painting or engraving objects of natural history for some colleagues. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume examines Oppel's work on Crocodilians, particularly his illustrations. Oppel's illustrations are compared to contemporary and modern illustrations of the same species with special emphasis on their scientific accuracy. In addition, a complete facsimile of Tiedemann, Oppel, \u0026amp; Liboschitz (1817) Naturgeschichte der Amphibien. Erstes Heft. Gattung Krokodil is reprinted, including the fifteen plates which were published separately by the authors. This book and it's atlas, are exceedingly rare and have not been reprinted previously.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Roger Bour, Josef Schmidtler\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0578293994\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780578293998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ishbh\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 196\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.04lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.63d","brand":"Roger Bour","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44072318599423,"sku":"9780578293998","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_15a8cf5a-fe9c-4e2c-89d0-66b528ecb1ec.jpg?v=1685441246","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/nikolaus-michael-oppels-drawings-watercolors-roger-bour-9780578293998","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}