GROUP OF 11 ENGRAVINGS of MONKEYS with ORIGINAL HANDCOLOR. by PRIMATES - ca. 1840) - [ca. 1840.]

[ca. 1840.]. ELEVEN individual sheets each with an engraving with original handcolor, sheet 4 x 6 1/2 inches. Very good condition. From William Jardine's Naturalist's Library volume on monkeys. Only the foreground animal is handcolored, the exotic landscape background etched in lightly. Engraved by Lizars. Primates are: Cercopithecus Mona. (The Varied Monkey.) Native of Africa. Cercopithecus Ruber. (The Red Monkey.). Native of Senegal. Hapales Jacchus. (The Striated Monkey.) Lasiopyga Nemea. (The Douc or Cochin-China Monkey.). Native of China. Midas Leonina. (The Leonine Tamarin.). Native of S. America. Papio Sylvanus. (The Chacma.). Native of Africa. Pithecia Satanas. (The Couxio.). Native of Brazil. Pithecus Satyrus. (The Red or Asiatic Orang-outang). Native of Borneo. Semnopithecus Melalophas. (The Simpai.). Native of Java. Pithecus Satyrus. (The Red or Asiatic Orang-outang.). Native of Borneo. Troglodytes Niger. (The Black Orangutan.). .